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	<description>Healthcare: Results of good intentions gone terribly wrong!</description>
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		<title>So much for &#8220;If you like your doctor, you can keep him&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://roadtohellth.com/2013/02/so-much-for-if-you-like-your-doctor-you-can-keep-him/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=so-much-for-if-you-like-your-doctor-you-can-keep-him</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major cost-saving initiatives behind ObamaCare is the consolidation of hospitals and doctors into &#8220;Accountable Care Organizations&#8221;, or ACOs.  It is presumed that forcing these organizations to utilize the same doctors, hospitals, clinics, EMRs, labs, imaging centers and so on will create more efficient, seamless and less costly care.  (This was not really borne out by Medicare&#8217;s own ACO pilot program, but that&#8217;s<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2013/02/so-much-for-if-you-like-your-doctor-you-can-keep-him/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>“Open Wide and Say ‘Moo!’”: The Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether the American voters realized it or not, arguably the single most important result of the 2012 Presidential election had to do with the future of what President himself has now termed “ObamaCare”.  Apparently admitting that resistance to ObamaCare is as futile as assimilation into The Borg, House Speaker John Boehner announced that “ObamaCare is the law of the land” and that House Republicans would<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/11/open-wide-and-say-moo-the-book-review/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Mandates Round 2 – Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago (how time flies!), we set out to explore the various elements and implications of the newest addition to the state laws governing the delivery of healthcare in Massachusetts: “An Act improving the quality of health care and reducing costs through increased transparency, efficiency and innovation”, and officially identified by the rather more prosaic name of “Chapter 224 of the Acts of<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/10/mass-mandates-round-2-part-ii/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Mandates Round 2 – Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2006, the Massachusetts legislature passed “The Massachusetts Mandated Health Insurance Law”, which was signed by then-Governor Mitt Romney.  As most of our readers undoubtedly know, this law subsequently served as the model for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  The ACA is now popularly known and widely referred to as ObamaCare. While the 2006 Massachusetts law has been labeled “RomneyCare” by many people, it’s not<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/08/mass-mandates-round-2-part-i/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>How to Destroy a Useful Healthcare Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You host has spent a good portion of his career working to come up with ways to make healthcare better, faster and cheaper through the appropriate use of computer and information technologies.  Given the vitriol that this blog has periodically heaped upon many of the electronic medical record systems commonly deployed and mandated by the government, this enthusiasm for computers and telecommunications may come as<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/08/how-to-destroy-a-useful-healthcare-technology/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Encouraging Common Sense in Public Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.                                                                                           &#8211;Thomas Huxley First a quick note.  Our postings are fewer and farther between this summer due to a particularly busy schedule, but will become more frequent and regular again as we get closer to the November elections. In the meantime, the dog days of summer seem to be producing relatively few new or interesting journeys<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/07/encouraging-common-sense-in-public-policy/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragedy of the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act Ruling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past week’s Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of ObamaCare is a tragedy on at least two counts.  The first tragedy relates to the relationship between our Federal government and the citizens who are subject to its will.  The second tragedy relates to the healthcare system itself, and affects all of us who seek, deliver and pay for care.  It is hard to say<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/07/the-tragedy-of-the-supreme-courts-affordable-care-act-ruling/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Are Doctors Dumb Enough to Be Society’s Hitmen?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to hand it to the American Medical Association (AMA), it has a real talent for destroying the medical profession. Over time this aptitude has been turned to a variety of uses.  In the late 1980s and early 1990s it was used to support the development and deployment of the RBRVS system of coding and billing.  The AMA was a direct beneficiary of this<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/06/are-doctors-dumb-enough-to-be-societys-hitmen/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon’s Magical Thinking Meets CCO Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September of 2011 we wrote an article called Oregon’s Healthcare “Transformation&#8221;, about the Beaver State’s efforts to solve the problem caring for the poor (and eventually everybody) by encouraging the development of “Coordinated Care Organizations” (or “CCOs”) for Oregon’s Medicaid program.  CCOs appear to literally be “Accountable Care Organizations” or “ACOs” with a different name, just as ACOs are simply Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/06/oregons-magical-thinking-meets-cco-reality/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Regulating the Regulators?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 01:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It’s easy to criticize the regulation of medicine these days.  No really, it is.  There is so much material to choose from.  And it frankly doesn’t much matter whether this regulation comes from the private sector or the government.  Most of it is very, very poorly done.  It defies logic.  It defies common sense.  It increases costs.  It decreases quality.  It makes people sick or<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/05/whos-regulating-the-regulators/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring Evidence-Based Medical Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: How is a rat different from U.S. healthcare policy? A:  A rat learns from experience. We were recently asked to comment on the challenge faced by the so-called “consumer owned and operated” health plans (or “CO-OPs”) created by the Affordable Care (“ObamaCare”) Act and originally funded to the tune of $6 billion dollars by U.S. taxpayers.  CO-OPs are supposed to be non-profit member-controlled organizations<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/05/ignoring-evidence-based-medical-economics/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Learning the Wrong Lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 01:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot-stove lid.  She will never sit down on a hot–stove lid again – but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. &#8211;Mark Twain A big part of the problem with<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/05/learning-the-wrong-lesson/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>An Elementary Lesson On Price and Human Behavior</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 19:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s difficult to understand why (unless, as we highly recommend, you read Dr. Rich’s Covert Rationing Blog), but President Obama and his colleagues clearly wish to eliminate any responsibility that patients might with respect to paying for their own healthcare.  This might be a good idea if the ultimate objective is to maximize both the demand for medical goods and garner votes from the grateful<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/05/an-elementary-lesson-on-price-and-human-behavior/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Starting Over With Healthcare Reform Is, Unfortunately, a Matter of Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last post, we took a post-Supreme Court-hearings look at the financial and administrative disaster that the famously misnamed “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (aka “Obamacare” or the “ACA”) has become.  At the same time we observed that having it overturned by the high court would provide a much-needed opportunity to wipe the healthcare slate clean and start over. Thus, the question arises<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/04/starting-over-with-healthcare-reform-is-unfortunately-a-matter-of-religion/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A Chance, However Slim, to Retrieve Healthcare from the Abyss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re like most people, by now you’re probably sick to death of hearing about the details of the arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA” or “ObamaCare”) made recently in the Supreme Court, President Obama’s strange and almost imperial warning to the court in reply to the hearings, and the backpedaling “of course the court can overturn unconstitutional laws except<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/04/a-chance-however-slim-to-retrieve-healthcare-from-the-abyss/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>More on Our National Effort to Dumb Down Physicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 05:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The digital ink was barely dry on our most recent post about manipulating the training of American physicians to make them perfect Renaissance men and women, when an article was published on the topic in JAMA by the brother of President Obama’s former White House Chief of Staff, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD PhD, and Victor R. Fuchs, PhD. In our last post we described how<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/03/more-on-our-national-effort-to-dumb-down-physicians/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Carefully Crafting the Politically Correct Physician</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop Quiz:  You&#8217;ve just been in a car accident, or been diagnosed with cancer, or struck by lightning, or you&#8217;re coming to your doctor&#8217;s office as sick as a dog with something you got last week and you haven&#8217;t been able to keep anything down for the past 48 hours.  What&#8217;s your top priority with respect to what you want your doctors to know?  Do<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/03/carefully-crafting-the-politically-correct-physician/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Specialty Certification Exams: The Real Scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to our readers: This article was recently published on The American Thinker website, where it can be found here.  We&#8217;ve added some additional comments at the end of the article based upon reaction to the original, and some additional thoughts and news we&#8217;ve had since publication. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Earlier this year, CNN broke the story that generations of dermatologists have been &#8220;cheating&#8221; on their specialty<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/03/medical-specialty-certification-exams-the-real-scandal/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Two Interesting Posts That Mosey Down the Road to Hellth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Megan McArdle over at The Atlantic is one of our favorite bloggers, as she routinely discusses various practical aspects of combining economics with human behavior.  Megan has apparently committed herself to another project for the next few weeks or months, and has left her blog in the hands of several guest bloggers &#8211; a couple of whom often write about healthcare.  Today two of them<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/03/two-interesting-posts-that-mosey-down-the-road-to-hellth/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Year After Year, Medicare Keeps Flushing Perfectly Good Kidneys (and Dollars) Down the Drain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most of our readers know, Medicare is the government-sponsored health insurance program for the elderly and disabled.  What many Americans may not realize, however, is that Medicare has, by law, for many years been unusually and selectively dedicated to the care and feeding of kidney function.  This leads us to the question for today: when our elected leaders pass laws about the coverage of<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/03/year-after-year-medicare-keeps-flushing-perfectly-good-kidneys-and-dollars-down-the-drain/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Ignorant Be Around Even Longer Than the Poor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://roadtohellth.com/?p=2364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good&#8230;                                                                                         &#8211; Mark 14:7 We’ll be the first to admit that there are many, many people who are more observant, eloquent and articulate than we are.  Many of those people are physicians.  So when one of them speaks up on an important subject that<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/02/will-the-ignorant-be-around-even-longer-than-the-poor/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency Medicine Goes Down the Rabbit Hole in the Evergreen State</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when American healthcare system seems so dysfunctional that it seems impossible to imagine how it could be screwed up further, a decision is made that restores one’s faith in the creativity of Man.  But before you run out of guesses as to which particular decision we’re talking about today, we’ll just blurt it out.  We are referring to last week’s decision by Washington State<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/02/emergency-medicine-goes-down-the-rabbit-hole-in-the-evergreen-state/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>America’s Higher Ed System Hits the Road to Hellth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, President Obama offered to do for higher education what the government has done for healthcare: become more heavily involved in deciding who gets what, and at what price. “In his Jan. 24 State of the Union address, the president warned colleges and universities that he was putting them ‘on notice,’ adding: ‘If you can&#8217;t stop tuition from going up, the funding you<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/02/americas-higher-ed-system-hits-the-road-to-hellth/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Will Medicare Bother to Learn Anything from Its Own Demonstrations? &#8211; Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last Road to Hellth post, we looked two of the four ”value-based payment” demonstrations whose results were recently reported by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). These demonstrations are important because they represent the best thinking that Medicare can muster with respect to how to reduce healthcare costs and make things all better on the American healthcare front.  In particular, they represent the Affordable<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/01/will-medicare-bother-to-learn-anything-from-its-own-demonstrations-part-ii/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Will Medicare Bother to Learn Anything from Its Own Demonstrations? &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released two reports summarizing the results of 14 major demonstration projects aimed at improving the “quality” and/or reducing the cost of care provided to Medicare patients. These fell into two broad categories: disease management and care coordination demonstrations, and “value-based payment” projects.  Both types of projects are of enormous importance to the future of the Affordable Care<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/01/will-medicare-bother-to-learn-anything-from-its-own-demonstrations-part-i/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Desperately Seeking Quality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month a physician social networking website asked its subscribers to weigh in on a survey supplied by a “client” who was looking for some help with a perplexing problem.  We’re forbidden under the website’s terms of use from publishing the exact post, but it went something like this: The Affordable Care (“ObamaCare”) Act requires Medicare to expand its “Physician Compare” Directory tool.  This<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/01/desperately-seeking-quality/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Staffing Miseries and Crony Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks we’ve spent an inordinate amount of time trying to help physician colleagues hire replacement employees after theirs were poached by the large health system that rents office space to them.  It seems that the supposedly religion-based mega-combination health insurer, hospital chain, medical buildings owner, clinical laboratory and purchaser of physician practices had recently decided to open a large new outpatient<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2012/01/medical-staffing-miseries-and-crony-capitalism/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Overhauling America&#8217;s Healthcare Machine by Gov. Richard D. Lamm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. health care “system” has been built up over the last 60 years during the most massive transfer of resources, outside of war, in the nation’s history. U.S. medical practice patterns, U.S. medical ethics, U.S. public expectations have all been formed during a time when health care spending has had an average growth of two-and-a-half times the rate of inflation.]]></description>
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		<title>Overhauling Healthcare: Medical Rules, Regulations and the &#8220;Basic Speed Law&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. David Gelber who writes the Heard in the OR blog recently had a must-read post published on KevinMD entitled &#8220;Rigid regulation can become detrimental to patient care.&#8221;  Anyone and everyone involved in or affected by America&#8217;s healthcare system should read this article.  It clearly illustrates exactly the type of good intentions that are sending patient, doctors and nurses further and further down the Road<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/12/overhauling-healthcare-medical-regulations-should-follow-the-basic-speed-law/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Time to Mass-Produce Preventive Medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Doug Perednia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over and over on these pages, we make the point that, for the most part, medical care is and should be something that is custom-tailored to each individual.  Different people have different genetics, anatomies, physiology, personalities, preferences and financial circumstances.  As long as they are willing to bear the financial weight of their decisions, there is no reason why the healthcare services offered to them<br /><div class="readmore"><a href="http://roadtohellth.com/2011/12/it%e2%80%99s-time-to-mass-produce-preventive-medicine/">Read More...</a></div>]]></description>
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