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  The Ten Commandments of Healthcare
  Posted on July 6, 2017 by freedominmedicine
  "Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money." ~Margaret Thatcher
  Remember: Doctors for America was Doctors for Obama(partisan organization)
  Read more: "Both Parties are Responsible for Healthcare Disaster" by Dr. Wax, published in Medical Economics, June 27, 2017 http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics/news/both-political-parties-are-responsible-healthcare-disaster
  Posted in Health Insurance Tyranny, Healthcare Healthfreedom	| Tagged ACA, BCRA, freedom, liberty, Moses, Obamacare, rights	| Leave a reply
  Who loses in a true free market solution for health care? Not patients.
  Posted on March 30, 2017 by freedominmedicine
  Friend of IP4PI Dr. Rico writes in:
  Just ask yourself who loses out in a true free market solution – Insurance cos, Elites of academia and Quality/Certification cartel, and administrators and it's clear why these special interests object so strenuously. It's no secret there will always be millions of people who can't pay for insurance, but let's identify those costs clearly so taxpayers will understand the impact, as they are the ones paying for it. There can't be a worse method of shifting costs to taxpayers than the current ACA subsidies. To state that current system works great as long as subsidies are maintained is ridiculous.
  -Edward Rico, MD, MBA, FACE
  Posted in Healthcare Healthfreedom	| Tagged ACA, Edward Rico, freedom, insurance companies	| 1 Reply
  Posted in CMS, Healthcare Healthfreedom, Medicare	| Tagged ACA, freedom, HHS, MACRA, Obamacare, Tom Price	| 2 Replies
  Key concepts as we work to restore patient freedom and Make American Medicine Great Again
  Posted on November 13, 2016 by freedominmedicine
  Now that there's a fighting chance to save patients from the disaster of ObamaCare, let's keep focus on some of the pivotal ideas that will restore low-cost, high-quality care for the maximum number of Americans, i.e. Make American Medicine Great Again:
  Health insurance was originally intended to be optional inexpensive stop-gap damage control against large financial losses for catastrophic disease or injury. It has become government #ACA mandated income redistribution through #ACO cronyism disguised as an entitlement program.
  The "unaffordable careless act," aka ACA, not only had high deductibles but the highest premiums in history as it was first dollar coverage driven by government fantasy.
  True low cost competitive rate high deductible plans (HDP) should only cover large expenditures as small ones should be paid out of pocket with consumers' Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
  Patients will decide on the value mix of the services they desire with prices mutually agreed on between patient and doctor. Consumers can have choice of paying fee for service at their discretion or paying for direct primary care ongoing relationship services. When other entities like employers, special interests and government get involved, the relationship and value is put asunder.
  Insurance was never intended to cover every dollar out of pocket. Imagine how expensive your car insurance would be if it covered every scratch, ding, dent, oil change, and every other service and told you where to buy gas every day….
  Posted in Healthcare Healthfreedom, PPACA/Obamacare	| Tagged ACA, freedom, HDP, HSA, MAGA, Trump	| 1 Reply
  Obamacare cost us trillions to save us millions.
  Posted on October 29, 2016 by freedominmedicine
  Think about the math; Obamacare cost trillions to save us millions . It has taken over our the healthcare system, insurance system, funneling money to the hospitals and special interests, and stolen everybody's right to choose to buy or not buy and insurance product. It is the biggest tax increase, biggest taxpayer funded entitlement and biggest theft of out rights in the history of our country. Obamacare Medicaid is not actual care, but a phony entitlement to enslave a population to vote for Washington cartel into perpetuity. I'm no fan of either party and their centralized power and money. We must repeal ACA and change DC now!
  Twitter @IP4PI @drcraigwax
  Posted in Government intervention in healthcare, Health Insurance Tyranny, Healthcare Healthfreedom	| Tagged ACA, entitlements, freedom, liberty, Medicaid, Obamacare	| 2 Replies
  Eliminating The 6 Degrees of Patient-Physician Separation
  Our Eliminating The 6 Degrees of Patient-Physician Separation article, penned by IP4PI founder Craig M. Wax, DO has been published at KevinMD.com! Please check it out and leave your comments:
  http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/08/6-degrees-patient-physician-separation.html
  Posted in Health Insurance Tyranny, Healthcare Healthfreedom, Medicare	| Tagged ACA, Craig M Wax DO, freedom, Kevin MD, MACRA, Medicare, Obamacare, PPACA, Wage Controls	| 1 Reply
  Calling all Citizens About Your Rights, Privacy & Healthcare Options
  Posted on June 1, 2016 by freedominmedicine
  For Urgent Consideration and Action
  This letter is from The National Physician's Council on Healthcare Policy, or NPCHCP. We are a national organization comprised of physicians from many different specialties from a majority of states. In 2009 the Council was established by members of the US Congress for the purpose of gathering practicing physician's input on issues relating to medicine, surgery and government healthcare policy.
  The Council has read and critiqued the nine hundred and sixty two pages (962) of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS Rules spawned from the MACRA Law. By unanimous opinion, even if the stated goals were laudable, the MACRA Rules as written are impossible to implement and will, like the "so-called,' Affordable Care Act," or ACA, waste billions of taxpayer dollars and violate your rights to privacy, security and choiceif they are allowed to proceed forward.
  MACRA/MIPS will destroy your privacy, security and healthcare options, taking out the solo and small groups first as physicians buckle under MACRA's financial burden and become salaried employees or leave practice. Implementation will force physicians by law to betray the Hippocratic Oath by linking payment to the collection of intimate and private data on all patients, not just Medicare and Medicaid enrollees. All data must be made available without restriction to CMS and related government entities via the electronic medical record, per the regulations, endangering your privacy and security. The government and insurance industry are exempted from HIPAA, the so-called, "privacy statute." Further, mandatory reporting and participation by physicians and healthcare facilities is to be used for bureaucrats to publically grade physicians on the pretense of quality. MACRA MIPS will not pay for your healthcare office visits to physicians and facilities, but by a complex series of equations based on your personal, formerly private data. The government is free and clear to ration care by choking payment to death for certain procedures, groups or even individuals as they see fit, with no responsibility to the people it is purported to serve.
  In 1965, Medicare was passed with the distinct caveat that the law would in no way interfere with the practice of medicine and surgery. In contrast, the MACRA law allows total government intrusion into every aspect of the practice of medicine, including unfettered access to every person's personal health data. This includes not just Medicare recipients, but all insured persons, whether individual, corporate or government. This law actually extends CMS reporting requirements to individual privately insured, employer sponsored, as well as, government Medicare and Medicaid patients also. This will most certainly be challenged in court.
  The frequent justification for government interference is that the current healthcare expenditures cannot be sustained. Under the auspices of enhancing quality, fixing a flawed payment system and controlling costs, Congress passed another healthcare law few had read. Ironically, the MACRA solution adds billions of dollars in IT, administrative, and software costs to physicians and the taxpayers. At the same time the law takes physicians away from the care of patients. The only winners are policians, IT vendors, hospitals, big pharma and entities selling compliance courses and software. With strong opposition, we can stop MACRA during this CMS Rules Comment Period.
  The WSJ on May 7, 2016 reported that Washington rules now impose $1.9 trillion of annual costs to the US economy, or $15,000 per household. Smaller business is the hardest hit. It is our opinion that every taxpaying citizen has an obligation to protect their own self interests of privacy, security and freedom of choice.
  We urge you to voice opposition to this government takeover of your privacy, freedom of choice, and healthcare options during the CMS MACRA comment period prior to June 27, 2016. We all can and must do better.
  Here is where you may make your comments:
  https://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=CMS-2016-0060-0068
  The NPCHCP thanks you for all your help. Let's take back our rights and freedom NOW.
  You may email us at: admin@NPCHCP.org
  You may call us at:562-900-2652
  You may send US mail to: PO Box 2225 Los Alamitos, CA 90720
  Visit our website: NPCHCP.org
  Posted in Health Insurance Tyranny, Medicare	| Tagged CMS, freedom, MACRA, Medicare, MIPA, NPCHCP, privacy, WSJ	| 1 Reply
  We Need to Become Joyous Warriors
  Posted on December 24, 2015 by freedominmedicine
  Richard Armstrong, MD writes in response to Dr. Kris Held's guest post:
  Kris, Yes, but I must also add something which we discussed in Colorado to what I believe is simply a factual observation. The circumstances we are currently living have been very long in the making. Those who favor "government run and planned" medical care are running up against a very harsh reality.the economics of their plans don't work.there is a fundamental math issue which they tend to gloss over and ignore, but just witness the Vermont attempts. Even Governor Shumlin had to finally admit, although he waited for his re-election, that in the final analysis they couldn't do it.duh.it is no surprise to us. Continue reading →
  Posted in Health Insurance Tyranny, Healthcare Healthfreedom, Regulatory capture of medical practice, Solo physician practice	| Tagged freedom, Koch, Kris Held, liberty, Richard Armstrong, Shumlin, Vermont	| 1 Reply