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Obama’s Health Care Plan to Penalize Specialists

Posted on: Friday, October 16, 2009

Specialists are quietly under fire in the new proposed health care bill. In it, the most highly paid doctors are asked to take a 5% pay cut, which is even more formidable than it sounds since Medicare dollars are worth 83 cents on the private dollar. When these figures are collated, it amounts to a [...]

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How Do We Compare To Our Old System and To Other Countries? Part Two of Two – The Old System

Posted on: Friday, July 17, 2009

For decades, the U.S. healthcare system was the envy of the entire world. Not coincidentally, there was far less government involvement in medicine during this time. America had the finest doctors and hospitals, patients enjoyed high quality, affordable medical care, and thousands of private charities provided health services for the poor. Doctors focused on treating [...]

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The Physician Shortage – The Proof That We Will Have One

Posted on: Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Experts believe that we are facing a physician shortage over the next 15 years. One study in particular was published by Edward Salsberg, a respected specialist in issues related to the physician workforce. It states that there will be a shortage of 200,000 physicians by the year 2020 if current trends continue in the health [...]

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Healthcare Jobs Boom in May

Posted on: Monday, June 22, 2009

With the economy at an all time low, and unemployment now reaching nearly 10%, it seems as though ever industries has felt the impact.  However, not only has the healthcare industry maintained strong, it continues to grow.  Healthcare exhibited higher numbers of employed professionals last month than previous months and The Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]

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Hospital Ratings and How They Work

Posted on: Monday, June 1, 2009

Quality ratings for hospitals come in two flavors – professional and public. As can be expected, the professional quality ratings are the ones that can be trusted, but they are not as easy to access as the public rating systems. Public rating systems can be skewed towards a positive outcome by advertising, or skewed towards [...]

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Healthcare Jobs Hold Steady Despite Sour Economy

Posted on: Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Manufacturing and construction are the hardest hit sectors in the current economy. Health care jobs, however, appear to be holding steady. According to employment data released for January, health care jobs grew on average by 3% across both hospitals and practices for the year ending in January. Hospitals added approximately 137,000 workers [...]

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