Docs4PatientCare

06/25/2014

Listen to latest radio broadcast of "The Doctors' Lounge", with Drs. Hal Scherz and Lee Gross discussing an affordable "free-market" family health plan which preserves the doctor-patient relationship and puts patients in charge of their healthcare decisions.

http://americaswebradio.com/the-doctors-lounge/

06/25/2014

In April, President Obama told the nation that “marketplace” or “exchange” enrollment, at 8 million customers as of March 31, had exceeded expectations and costs were lower than expected.

Many in the news media accepted the selectively released statistics, despite the Obama administration’s record of sometimes providing inaccurate or incomplete information on HealthCare.gov. Even today, the government continues to withhold relevant public information on costs and enrollment requested by Congress and the press under the Freedom of Information Act. Read More...........

http://dailysignal.com/2014/06/24/obamacare-exchanges-disappointing/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Fewer than 4 million newly insured “doesn’t put much of a dent in the problem,” says an Obamacare supporter. The Obama administration hoped for 26 million.

05/28/2014

D4PC President Hal Scherz, MD, writes in the Wall Street Journal about his experience in the VA Health System and how the quality issues plaguing our nation's veterans is a harbinger of what is inevitable for the rest of us as a result of the Affordable Care Act and the immense power granted to the federal gov't over our healthcare.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/hal-scherz-doctors-war-stories-from-va-hospitals-1401233147?tesla=y&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303480304579579682825273174.html&fpid=2,7,121,122,201,401,641,1009

In The Wall Street Journal, Hal Scherz writes about mismanagement at Veterans Affairs hospitals.

04/14/2014

Grace Marie Turner deflates the Administration's bragging rights behind the 7 million Americans who have enrolled in the ACA state insurance exchanges.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/374775/millions-trampled-obamacares-success-grace-marie-turner?mc_cid=75856d5778&mc_eid=3a40a0b5c7

President Obama is bragging that the administration reached its target of 7 million people enrolled in the Obamacare exchanges, but our insurance-salesman-in-chief has a callous definition of success. Millions of people have been driven into the Obamacare exchanges and out of private coverage they l...

03/03/2014

Help educate more Americans about the failures of the ACA by joining this effort put together by Citizens' Council For Health Freedom. Sign the petition stating your refusal to purchase insurance in the state exchanges and find out how to obtain educational material you can share with others who are concerned about their family's medical insurance options in the new world of Obamacare.

http://www.cchfreedom.org/cchf.php/784 #.UxUI0I4l1aF

Defend Your Health Freedom! Obamacare officially kicked off on October 1, 2013 with open enrollment through the state and federal government health exchanges. Exchanges, which are key to implementing health care reform, threaten individual choices, privacy, freedom and pocketbooks.

03/03/2014

It is abundantly clear that the ACA is a failure that is hurting more Americans than helping. It not only exacerbates all the current problems in our hcs, but is financially unworkable. It is now time to propose real reform measures that Americans can understand and support. Here is an ACA alternative as proposed by John Goodman, PhD.

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-vision-thing-2/

On Thursday, some Republican members of Congress and think tank policy wonks who often advise them will be at the National Press Club to present their

02/25/2014

The latest shocking revelation regarding ACA's enormous costs as reported from the government's own agencies:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/02/25/the-next-shoe-to-drop-obamacare-will-increase-the-cost-of-employer-sponsored-insurance/?partner=yahootix

Yesterday, the Obama Administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a six-page report predicting that Obamacare could cause premiums to increase for nearly two-thirds of small- to medium-sized businesses. “This results in roughly 11 million individuals whose premiums are estima...

02/25/2014

In case you were counting.................35 changes to ACA by President and/or Congress, SO FAR!!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2014/02/13/thirty-five-changes-to-obamacare-so-far/

02/20/2014

Latest TownHall.com opinion by D4PC President Hal Scherz, MD.

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/halscherz/2014/02/19/there-are-alternatives-to-the-affordable-care-act-n1797008

The irony of this entire debate is that the people who know the most about delivering care to patients were excluded from the development of the ACA. The physicians involved in crafting the administration’s vision, such as Drs. Ezekiel Emanuel and Donald Berwick, were far removed from day to day pat...

02/10/2014

They think of everything!! If young and healthy Americans never come around to the Obamacare exchanges, an insurance company bailout provision written into the healthcare law might prevent premiums from spiking — until after the midterm elections.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/27/obamacare-insurer-bailout-could-cue-up-premium-hikes-before-2016-election/

If young and healthy Americans never come around to the Obamacare exchanges, an insurance company bailout provision written into the healthcare law might prevent premiums from spiking -- until after t