A primary care physician by training, my passion is researching and writing about the importance restoring patient centered care, supporting independent private physicians, promoting free-market solutions and seeking sustainable fiscal policy in healthcare.
Author: Robert Nelson, MD
Watch “Left vs. Fact: Rent Control Hurts Renters” on YouTube
Forum for Healthcare Freedom writes: To avoid the mistakes of the past, the parallels of rent-controlled districts to the subsidies & indirect price controls (think medical loss ratio) of the Affordable Care Act are worth examining.
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Judge tosses CMS’ site-neutral pay policy | Modern Healthcare
Forum for Healthcare Freedom writes: When central planners interfere with markets, as happened in 1965 and which continues to this day, the toxic distortions on pricing mechanisms weave their way extensively through the entire industry. The long term damage is …
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DPC update: Why We Should Oppose HR 3807
Lee Gross, MD: “DPC Action met with the Administration (White House, Treasury and others) more than 14 times, and this linked legal analysis is what we submitted to the US Department of Treasury to give guidance and support to the …
England & Europe: Never Fully Integrated | National Review
A detour into the political history of England with Victor Davis Hanson. Historically, Britain has looked more upon the seas and the New World than eastward to Europe. In that transatlantic sense, a Canadian or American typically had more in …
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Market Institute Unveils National #StopPriceFixing Effort
Originally posted on IP4PI - Independent Physicians for Patient independence: The?Market?Institute?is informing voters around the country about a price fixing scheme that Republicans are considering in Congress. Sign petition today at: https://action.stoppricefixing.org/ The awareness campaign is taking place in…
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Watch “The Day 2 Problem for Egalitarianism | Prof. James Otteson” on YouTube
Professor Otteson discusses the fatal flaws of redistributive planned economies, not the least of which is a decline in cooperative innovation.
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Surprise Medical Bills: We Know the Cure…Few Are Using it
This whole issue of “surprise bills” is a symptom of a more pernicious economic disease which has been driving prices in healthcare for decades; that being, a lack on discoverable, actionable meaningful prices for bundled medical services. Moreover, the lack …
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Medicare for Bernie – AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. “Bernie might think he had been admitted—say he had an IV in a hospital room. But if he gets discharged before his second midnight, he might be classified as an outpatient, which is covered under …
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