Healthcare Reform and the ACA Perspective

• Best & Worst Places to Practice 2022 Some states offer lots of perks and temptations for physician practices, although each doctor has their own priorities that make some places more desirable.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 20, 2022
• Why Are We a 'Loss Leader' for Procedural Subspecialties? Dr Kenny Lin wishes he could say that family medicine and primary care are in a better position today than a decade ago.
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, May 06, 2022
• Is the AMA Irrelevant or the Main Player? Books and articles expose the problems inside medicine but solutions don't seem to follow.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 03, 2022
• Advice on Small Practice Mergers If you are considering a merger, which offers many benefits, here are some things to think about, says Joseph S. Eastern, MD.
  Medscape Dermatology, April 29, 2022
• ACP-IM 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ACP-IM 2022
  Medscape Internal Medicine, April 28, 2022
• Any Benefits for Docs in Govt's New Medicare Payment Model? A new payment model signals the government's continued experimentation to find a solution to the soon-to-be-bankrupt Medicare program. Will you be affected?
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 20, 2022
• The Gridiron Club Dinner Was a Predictable Superspreader Event Relying on people being "thoughtful about their own risks and the risks they pose to others" is absurd and throws the vulnerable under the bus.
  Medscape Blogs, April 13, 2022
• SGIM 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from the SGIM 2022 Annual Meeting
  Medscape Internal Medicine, April 07, 2022
• House of Medicine for Rent Yale scholar Peter A. Swenson, PhD, says financial conflicts of interest plague medical societies in the United States, warping healthcare politics and jeopardizing patient care.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 29, 2022
• The Medical Model Doesn't Work for Mental Health   Former NIMH Director Tom Insel explains how the medical model has failed the field of psychiatry.
  Medscape, March 25, 2022
• Pain in Vain or Flexible Prescribing? CDC's Draft Opioid Guidance With this proposed update, CDC seeks to restore physician autonomy and balance in pain management, but has the pendulum swung too far in the direction of "never opioids"?
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, March 22, 2022
• Politicians Overrule Board of Health's Medical Officer Politics trumps science once again.
  Medscape Blogs, March 17, 2022
• Focusing Cancer Resources After the Pandemic: Best Practices   Professor David Kerr discusses a recent article providing a clear base on which to start to rebuild health economies of low- and middle-income countries after the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Oncology, March 11, 2022
• Is Family Reunification Our Goal? Too often the reunification of "the family" seemed to trump the needs of the child.
  Medscape Pediatrics, March 09, 2022
• Stop Calling Children Resilient Children have reached their mental health limits with the pandemic. The resilience narrative is not helping their recovery.
  Medscape Blogs, March 07, 2022
• Should Physicians Run Health Departments?   Physicians are on the front lines of delivering healthcare, but does that make them effective leaders in determining health policy?
  Medscape Oncology, March 04, 2022
• Reid Blackwelder Is Still Hopeful About Primary Care Two family docs discuss the challenges facing primary care in a post-pandemic world.
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, February 04, 2022
• COVID and the Holocaust Comparing mask and vaccine requirements to the Holocaust reveals a shocking ignorance about history.
  Medscape Blogs, February 01, 2022
• Why Politicians Should Stay Out of Public Health Policy When politics invades public health policy, the fallout can be deadly -- not only for citizens, but also for health officials.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, January 28, 2022
• Prices of Prescription Drugs Are Complex and Opaque Prices of prescription drugs are complex and opaque; they are different from patient costs; and high prices drive innovation.
  Medscape Blogs, January 28, 2022