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17 Jul 2022, 10:52 am by Patrick A. Malone
While Congress seems paralyzed or, at best, willing to shrink significantly its efforts to help Americans deal with the punishing costs of care in the U.S. medical system, could federal lawmakers be confronted at the same time with more compelling evidence about the need for aggressive, not timid, action? [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 9:00 am by Heather Young
The report, titled "Standing up For Seniors: How the Civil Justice System Protects Elderly Americans," can be found at www.justice.org/seniors. [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 6:46 am
Over 250,000 Americans fall victim to medical identity theft each year, according to an article by the New York Times, and the increased use of electronic medical records with less than adequate privacy protection has allowed this number to rise. [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 3:07 am by Walter Olson
” [Tyler Cowen] Tags: FDA, Florida, medical, opioids, pharmaceuticals, taxis and ridesharing Medical roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 8:06 am by Leiza Dolghih
Comments by Other Medical Associations and Individual Physicians  AMA’s recommendation stands in stark contrast to the position taken by Allegheny County Medical Society and American Academy of Emergency Medicine, both of which recommended that FTC should ban physician non-compete agreements. [read post]
22 Mar 2013, 5:24 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Elizabeth Dzeng has a nice article in today's Independent comparing British and American approaches to medical futility. [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 2:51 am by Walter Olson
[John O’Brien, Legal NewsLine] “Pharmacy Benefit Managers Are Not the Cause of High Prescription Drug Prices” [Ike Brannon] Advice for physicians: “5 ways to live through medical malpractice lawsuits” [Stacia Dearmin, KevinMD] Tags: defensive medicine, juries, medical malpractice, obesity, pharmaceuticals Medical roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 9:12 am by Patrick A. Malone
Although Good Samaritans deserve a great holiday cheer for their part in paying for some of it, medical debt persists as a giant shame of the American health care system. [read post]
11 Jun 2019, 7:12 am by Patrick A. Malone
Praise be: Churches nationwide are leaping in with their congregations’ blessing and financial support, putting up small sums to buy up and wipe out one of the huge shames of the American health care system: patients’ medical debt. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 7:50 pm by GGCRBHS&M
According to statistics from the Journal of the American Medical Association, 80% of adverse events in the health care system are the result of human errors. [read post]
10 Aug 2013, 12:57 pm
  What it would mean is that the concept of medical insurance largely ceases to exist and would be replaced by a medical care welfare system. [read post]
23 May 2012, 6:54 am by admin
Several sources have recently commented on the fact that the American health care system lags behind other countries in large part because we have a ‘healthy medical malpractice’ business that simply does not exist in other nations with comparable economies. [read post]
6 Jan 2019, 9:32 am by Patrick A. Malone
Medical devices race onto the market with little or no effective testing or regulatory safeguards, and a proposed “reform” of the oversight system of products that are implanted in tens of millions of Americans is a sham, safety advocates say. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 8:37 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled "Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values," where I will testify. [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 2:04 pm
Today, President Obama delivered a much-anticipated speech to the American Medical Association (AMA) about his comprehensive plan to reform the country's health care system. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 5:25 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The CFPB is concerned that the systems for incurring, collecting, and reporting medical debt can create difficult challenges for consumers. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 1:40 am by Jon Gelman
Nov 09, 2012 On Tuesday, the American people expressed its support for a unified medical care program that will embrace all aspects of life, including industrial accidents and diseases. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 7:36 am
Mandatory computerized medical record and patient management systems. 2. [read post]