11.28.11

Super Comittee Quits - Will Docs Quit Also? | Super Committee

Posted in Society's Ills at 8:02 PM by Tanna K

Dr. Jane Orient

By: Jane M. Orient, M.D.,

The Super Committee apparently ran into some Kryptonite, and was unable to perform a Superman-like impossible feat.

AMA president Peter Carmel, M.D., complained that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction missed a “unique opportunity to stabilize the Medicare program…for generations to come.” Really?

Even Superman couldn’t subtract $1.2 trillion from the budget gap by adding the $300 billion in spending required to restore a scheduled 27% pay cut to physicians. Now the cut may be 29% because of automatic sequestration, the default option if the Super Committee failed. Will your doctor still be there for you if this happens?

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02.10.11

The World Is Too Much With Us - by Agustin Perez

Posted in Society's Ills at 4:58 PM by Tanna K

Editor’s note: Comcast.com is my home page and when I opened it yesterday I learned that Lindsay Lohan may have stole a necklace,  now decreased Michael Jackson used to call Janet ‘fat’ and she’s still smarting over that, Ashlee Simpson filed divorce from Pete Wentz, Jenny McCarthy split with her boyfriend,  and Simon Cowell says the new Idol judges are soft. Why do I care about any of this, I asked myself.

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