Posted on November 8th, 2008 by The Country Doc
Leaks on the Internet and a New York Times article yesterday report that President-elect Obama is considering former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to be his health care czar. While I have much respect for the contributions of the long time public servant and have no doubt that he has knowledge on health care, Daschle represents Washington’s business [...]
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Filed under: Healthcare, The Country Doc
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by The Country Doc
Now that the election is over pundits will soon begin to speculate as to who Barack Obama will select for his cabinet. While I’m hardly a pundit, and just a simply country doctor, I thought I’d put in my two cents on health care related appointees before all the real pundits drown me out. I’ve mentioned [...]
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Filed under: Health, The Country Doc
Posted on November 4th, 2008 by The Country Doc
Sarah Palin has received much deserved criticism on everything from her position of issues, to her lavish wardrobe, to her lack of regular reading, but on election day I thought I would give her a single point of praise. Palin’s so called release of her medical records showed that her primary care provider is a [...]
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Filed under: Gov. Sarah Palin, Health, Healthcare, Presidential Election, The Country Doc
Posted on October 29th, 2008 by The Country Doc
Barack Obama is seizing upon a gaffe by McCain adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, about the Republican candidates’ health care plan. When the adviser was asked on CNN Money about young workers abdoning employment based health care. ”Why would they leave?” he said. “What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit.”
The [...]
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Filed under: General Election, Healthcare, The Country Doc
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by The Country Doc
New York Times Op-Ed piece yesterday by the unusual triumvirate of Bill Beane, Newt Gingrich, and John Kerry analogized the obsessive nature of baseball statistics to where we should head with health care. Baseball has left simple batting and earned run averages for a next generation of statistics including WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) and [...]
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Filed under: Healthcare, John Kerry, N.Y. Times, The Country Doc
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by The Country Doc
Congress’s $700 billion bailout package unbeknownst to seemingly everyone, or at least me, also contained within it a valuable piece of legislation regarding mental health services that advocates have been fighting for years to pass. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 was passed into law as part of the Emergency Economic [...]
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Filed under: Health, Sen. Ted Kennedy, The Country Doc
Posted on October 11th, 2008 by The Country Doc
Last week two health care experts sounded the alarm that health care may be the next national meltdown on the same scale as the banking industry. Former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and Kenneth Thorpe, PhD of the executive director of the Emory Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions and former deputy assistant of policy at HHS under Clinton, met [...]
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Filed under: Economy, Health, Healthcare, The Country Doc
Posted on October 8th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
(Promoted by Stuart O’Neill from the article by County Doc and his subsequent answer in the comment section. Hope you don’t mind, Country Doc. This is a worthy subject.)
Since Stuart has goated me on, studies show that walk-in clinics are less expensive that an ER visit, but more expensive than a primary care office for [...]
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Filed under: Children, Health, Healthcare, Special Needs, Stuart O'Neill, The Country Doc
Posted on October 8th, 2008 by The Country Doc
Amidst a discussion of health care in which both candidates rattled off plans for tax credits, debated employment based health care, and praised electronic health records, it was the question from an audience member that really told of one of those “fundamental differences”.
The question of the night went to Lindsey Trella, “Senator, selling health care [...]
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Filed under: Debate, Election '08, Healthcare, The Country Doc
Posted on October 7th, 2008 by The Country Doc
A report card put out by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for America Action Fund (IAVA) gives Republican candidate John McCain a “D” on his voting record on veterans’ issues. Barack Obama and Joe Biden both received “B” for their efforts.
The report card graded the voting records of all members of Congress based on their support [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, The Country Doc, Veterans Issues
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by The Country Doc
During the vice presidential debate it became clear that Sarah Palin had not boned up too much on health care as she ducked and dodged Gwen Ifill’s questions on the subject. Biden ended the talk on health care with the zinger of the night. The CNN transcript speaks for itself with my editorializing italicized. Joe Biden [...]
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Filed under: Debate, Democrats, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, In The News, McCain-Palin '08, Obama-Biden 08, Politics, Presidential Debates, Republicans, Sen. Joe Biden, The Country Doc, VP
