Blogs Posts on "Healthcare Policy"
(Bo)Tax on Elective Surgery by Suture for a Living on Nov 20, 2009I agree with all who feel there needs to be healthcare reform (or more honestly health insurance reform), but I don’t agree with Senator Harry Reid who feels one way to pay for it is by taxing elective surgery. This proposed tax has been du...
US Healthcare Reform Photoshop Contest by Suture for a Living on Nov 15, 2009Dr Wes and his wife, Diane, are holding a contest: US Healthcare Reform Photoshop Contest. Bring us your snark, your wit, your creativity about the health care reform efforts encapsulated in a single photograph. Photographs in support or against...
John Stossel Speaks at Healthcare Town Hall by Suture for a Living on Oct 29, 2009I am not as well educated in healthcare policy or politics as Dr Wes, Dr Val, KevinMD, Movin’ Meat, or Dr Sid Schwab. I keep reading and listening, trying to understand and decide where I stand. I seem to be more of a centrist (I think)...
Shout Outs by Suture for a Living on Oct 27, 2009Codeblog is this week's host of Grand Rounds. You can read this week’s “Trick or Treating” edition here. Welcome to Grand Rounds! This is volume 6, number 6…. and the 6th time I am hosting… during the week of Hallowee...
Abortion Coverage and Health Insurance Reform by Suture for a Living on Aug 27, 2009I’m going to wade right in here. I am not a fan of abortions, but neither am I of amputations. Both are sometimes necessary. To me, too often abortion opponents forget the mother. She is a life present before us. Her c...
Shout Outs by Suture for a Living on Aug 11, 2009DrRich, The Covert Rationing Blog, is this week's host of Grand Rounds. You can read it here (photo credit). It’s the “cost containment in healthcare” edition. Critics of the Obama health (insurance) reform plan have been formally se...
Shout Outs by Suture for a Living on Jul 28, 2009Captain Atopic is this week's host of Grand Rounds. You can read it here. He calls it the “Grand Rounds 5:45 - Le Tour de France Edition!” Where Grand Rounds is the Grand Tour of Medical Blogging, the Grand tour of Cycling is undoubtedl...
Shout Outs by Suture for a Living on Jul 21, 2009Doc Gurley is this week's host of Grand Rounds. You can read it here (photo credit). Welcome to Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 44. A Grand Rounds full of plot twists, drama, melodrama and yes, death (this is a medical blog roundup after all).
Don’t Forget HIPAA Privacy Rules by Suture for a Living on Jul 7, 2009As we move towards EMR’s, the ability to know who has looked at the medical record may get more and more in trouble. While we are all curious about our friends, neighbors, and celebrities (local or global), it is important to respect each others...
Don’t Forget HIIPA Privacy Rules by Suture for a Living on Jul 2, 2009As we move towards EMR’s, the ability to know who has looked at the medical record may get more and more in trouble. While we are all curious about our friends, neighbors, and celebrities (local or global), it is important to respect ea...
