Posted on May 4th, 2012 by Frank Fortin
The Massachusetts House Friday released a comprehensive payment reform bill that seeks the cut $160 billion in health care spending in Massachusetts over the next 15 years. House Speaker Robert DeLeo characterized the bill as an effort to balance the need to cut health care costs for employers and families with a desire to keep [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2011 by Frank Fortin
Spirited debate at the MMS House of Delegates Saturday led to the adoption of 18 principles on health care reform that the Society plans to share with local and national legislators. The principle that dominated deliberations asserted that “health care reform must enable patient choice in access to physicians, hospitals, and other services while recognizing [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2011 by Rick Gulla
The Boston Globe took a more national perspective, and the Boston Herald pointed to Governor Deval Patrick’s bill for health care cost containment, but the message from both Boston newspapers was the same: the current system of medical liability needs to be reformed. Both papers stated their support for such reform in their lead editorials [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by Rick Gulla
MMS physicians held their first meeting with newly elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown on Tuesday afternoon, and the session produced a “good exchange of ideas,” said MMS President Mario Motta, M.D. The meeting was held as part of the American Medical Association’s National Advocacy Conference, held over three days in Washington. “It was a very [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by Rick Gulla
Dr. Barry Izenstein, Governor of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Physicians, in a letter to the editor of the Springfield Republican published November 1, says “Let us not get caught up in silly, petty, unfounded arguments when it comes to health-care reform. Indeed, if the current bill fails, the result will be [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by Frank Fortin
Here's an emergency doc whose blog post this week makes his vote clear: Defensive medicine is real. He writes, "By the end of the shift, I was getting annoyed with myself because I kept second-guessing my decisions to order tests that would most likely be normal." He adds, "Many physicians are afraid to practice rational [...]
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