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  • The Cure for U.S. Physician Burnout – Commentary

    By Deane Waldman, M.D. The United States has a critical shortage of health care professionals: nurses, mental health therapists, and especially physicians. Burnout among these clinicians is the proximate cause of the shortage. Maximum wait times to see a primary care doctor can exceed four months, resulting in death by queue. “Death by queue” was coined for Great Britain’s vaunted National…

  • Progressive Policies Expand Medicaid, Increase Dependency

    Progressive policies expand Medicaid, increasing the number of people dependent on government for health care. By Eileen Griffin Medicaid spending has increased significantly as progressive policies made access easier and eliminated accountability. Medicaid expenditures increased 9.6 percent between 2021 and 2022, the Washington Examiner reports. In 2022, the program cost taxpayers $805 billion. The Affordable…

  • Medicare Cuts Physician Reimbursements

    Medicare has cut payments to doctors for 2024 by 1.25 percent due to a 3.34 percent reduction in the “conversion factor” used to calculate reimbursement rates under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). The cut follows a 2 percent physician payment reduction in 2023. Medicare’s “conversion factor” is a complicated system that assigns value to a…

  • Betsy McCaughey: Free Health Insurance For Migrants Is Lunacy

    Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and break into rich countries. The United States is their No. 1 destination. The U.S. needs a strategy to limit the burden on Americans and protect our quality of life.…

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