Doctor Faces Suits Over Cardiac Stents
By GARDINER HARRIS
Word quickly reached top executives at Abbott Laboratories that a Baltimore cardiologist, Dr. Mark Midei, had inserted 30 of the company’s cardiac stents in a single day in August 2008, “which is the biggest day I remember hearing about,” an executive wrote in a celebratory e-mail.
Two days later, an Abbott sales representative spent $2,159 to buy a whole, slow-smoked pig, peach cobbler and other fixings for a barbecue dinner at Dr. Midei’s home, according to a report being released Monday by the Senate. The dinner was just a small part of the millions in salary and perks showered on Dr. Midei for putting more stents in more patients than almost any other cardiologist in Baltimore.
Incoming AG weighs fight over health reform
William Schneider believes the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. Others say a lawsuit is a futile gesture.
AUGUSTA - Maine's incoming attorney general believes federal health care reform is unconstitutional and is weighing whether the state should join a pending lawsuit in Florida that is challenging it on constitutional grounds.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/incoming-ag-weighs-fight-over-health-reform_2010-12-06.html
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Doc fix new weapon vs. health reform | |
| Congressional Republicans are hoping to put Democrats in a no-win new year's jam: defund a big chunk of their health care overhaul or slash Medicare payments instead. Despite rampant repeal rhetoric, Republicans have so far struggled to dismantle any part of health reform. Now, they see a new path forward: pilfer health reform dollars to pay for the next "doc fix," the must-pass patch to Medicare doctor payments. Republican Senate aides familiar with the issue told POLITICO they are seriously looking at the new law's $15 billion public health commitment to finance a one-year doc fix in the next session of Congress. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B7C7A0C9-025C-BB83-3165CCC3DCA2F19F Check out this You-Tube video: |
200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes.
http://www.wimp.com/countriesyears/
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