Researchers Peg Malpractice Costs at Over $55 billion
Jennifer Lubell
Modern Healthcare, 9/7/10
Medical malpractice costs average about $55.6 billion annually, or 2.4% of annual healthcare spending, according to a new Health Affairs analysis.

Health Care Wastefulness Is Detailed in Studies
Kevin Sack
The New York Times, 9/7/10
In a snapshot of systemic waste, researchers have calculated that more than half of the 354 million doctor visits made each year for acute medical care, like for fevers, stomachaches and coughs, are not with a patient’s primary physician, and that more than a quarter take place in hospital emergency rooms.

In Defense of Physician Autonomy
Saul Greenfield
Wall Street Journal, 9/7/10
The auditorium was filled with young, newly minted physicians sitting nervously in white jackets.

Patients' Choices May Narrow as Insurers Adjust Standards for Doctors, Hospitals
Bruce Japsen
Chicago Tribune, 9/4/10
The new federal health care law is bringing additional demands by insurance companies that doctors and hospitals be held to higher quality standards.

Family Health Premiums Rise 3 Percent to $13,770 in 2010, But Workers' Share Jumps 14 Percent as Firms Shift Cost Burden
Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust, 09/02/10
Workers on average are paying nearly $4,000 this year toward the cost of family health coverage - an increase of 14 percent, or $482, above what they paid last year, according to the benchmark 2010 Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET).

1099 Collation Calamity
Dr. Bob Graboyes
NFIB, 09/01/10
The 2,000-page healthcare law passed in March harms small business in many ways.

Dear Patients: Vote to Repeal ObamaCare
Hal Scherz
The Wall Street Journal, 9/01/10
America's doctors have millions of personal interactions each week with patients.

More Empowered Patients Question Doctors' Orders
Mary Brophy Marcus
USA Today, 9/01/10
In the past, most patients placed their entire trust in the hands of their physician.

Federal Spending Rises a Record 16%
Michael A. Fletcher and Carol Morello
The Washington Post, 9/01/10
Federal domestic spending increased a record 16 percent, to $3.2 trillion, in 2009, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, largely because of a boost in aid to the unemployed and the huge economic stimulus package enacted to rescue the sinking economy.

White House Mispricing the Cost of Repeal

American Action Forum, 08/31/10
The claim that repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would cost $455 billion is built on the accounting tricks that the White House used to proclaim in March that the bill would reduce the deficit.

Even With Malpractice Insurance, Doctors Opt for Expensive, Defensive Medicine
Manoj Jain
The Washington Post, 08/31/10
Most malpractice suits turn out to be against doctors who were not at fault.

The Facts About Health Care Reform
Michael Egren
Egren's Insights, 2/10/10
As the CEO of a manufacturing business I spent over 25 years developing extensive expertise regarding the issues of health care.

Next Step for U.S. Health Care
Michael Egren
Egren's Insights, 4/5/10
If you understand my summary of health reform issues, now that ObamaCare has passed, you will realize that instead of solving the root causes of the health care problems, the new legislation makes them worse.

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More Health Care Fiction
Boston Herald, 8/30/10
The notion that “if you like your health plan you can keep it” under Obamacare has already been proven a lie.

Health-care Funding Provision Could Face Repeal
N.C. Aizenman
Washington Post, 8/29/10
Five months after the adoption of the sweeping new health-care law, momentum is building to modify and possibly repeal one of its funding sources.

Cash-Poor Governments Ditching Public Hospitals
Suzanne Sataline
The Wall Street Journal, 8/29/10
Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort.

Emily Litella Response to Medicare Trustees Report–Never Mind
Dennis G. Smith
Leavitt Partners Blog, 8/26/10
During the late 1970s, Saturday Night Live (SNL) featured a skit with Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner in which Ms.