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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Quick Links: FFS, CER, Employer Mandates, Expensive Drugs

Greg Scandlen: "Is Fee-For-Service the Problem?"

Short answer, "No, it's the 3rd-party payor system". (Via Brian Schwartz.)

Kathryn Nix of Heritage: "Comparative Effectiveness Research Under Obamacare: A Slippery Slope to Health Care Rationing"

Jim Blasingame discusses how employer mandates in ObamaCare will hurt small businesses.

Avik Roy, "Stifling New Cures: The True Cost of Lengthy Clinical Drug Trials". (H/T: Dr. Richard Amerling.)
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America was founded on the principles of freedom and individual rights. Applied to medicine, the law must respect the individual rights of doctors and other providers, allowing them the freedom to practice medicine. This includes the right to choose their patients, to determine the best treatment for their patients, and to bill their patients accordingly. In the same manner, the law must respect the individual rights of patients, allowing them the freedom to seek out the best doctors and treatment they can afford.

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