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US Health Care Reform May Make us Like Canada: Good or Bad?

by francine 06.22.2011

My family doctor emigrated to the US from Canada years ago. He has just installed an EMR and qualified easily for meaningful use stimulus funds because he takes Medicaid patients. To qualify for meaningful use under Medicaid, all you have to do is order the EMR; it doesn’t even have to be up and running. [...]

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Healthcare’s Contract With America: Routine Maintenance

by francine 08.04.2010

Until the 1970s, most medical care was primary care. Certain primary care doctors were known to be better at diagnosing things than others, and if you thought something was really wrong and your own doctor couldn’t figure it out, you went to a diagnostician. While these talented people may have charged a bit more, I [...]

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No Providers, No Care

by francine 03.14.2009

I’m taking a moment out of the hilarity of SXSW, a geek festival for filmies, music fans, and young software developers, to write about something much more important: upcoming lack of access to medical care. It is going to get worse and worse, folks, unless we keep on the government to change the incentives, fix [...]

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