The Special Doctor-Patient Relationship
To the Editor:
Re “Patients Are Not Consumers” (column, April 22):
Bravo to Paul Krugman. As a physician for 44 years, I have seen the sick person seeking medical care transformed from a patient to a consumer and, like Mr. Krugman, I have been sickened by this.
Justices Reject Request for Fast Health Law Ruling
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned back an unusual request from Virginia to put the state’s challenge to the new federal health care law on a fast track. The court’s one-line order offered no reasoning, and there were no noted dissenting votes.
Bills would mandate drug testing for MaineCare enrollees
Posted April 25, 2011, at 7:17 p.m.
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TweetAUGUSTA, Maine — Republican lawmakers Monday introduced two proposals that would impose mandatory — and possibly unconstitutional — drug testing on Maine residents who are enrolled in MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income and disabled residents.
Tea party vs. affordable health care | |
| What does the tea party have against helping small businesses find affordable health insurance for their employees? Tea party-linked groups have recently spiked legislation in three states that would have authorized federally funded planning to create health insurance exchanges. Activists successfully blocked the efforts of these GOP governors to explore market-based alternatives that would address the stubbornly high ranks of the uninsured in their states. In doing so, they blanketed Republican supporters of this exchange legislation with claims of complicity in the enforcement of “Obamacare.” http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=E06925B2-70BD-48F9-9A69-252AF8863D3F Vermont Legislature Tackles Single-Payer Health Bill |
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