Ayurvedic Medicine – A Simple Approach to Cleansing/Fasting – Video

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Watch Dogs Bad Blood DLC Gameplay Walkthrough Part 7 – Bad Medicine – Video

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Watch Dogs Bad Blood DLC Gameplay Walkthrough Part 7: Bad Medicine of the Bad Blood DLC for Watch Dogs will include all bad blood dlc story missions, full review and and extras in 720 HD. ...

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Is Obamacare Changing The Way Doctors Practice Medicine?

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One of the goals of health reform was to change the way doctors practice medicine. Under Medicares fee-for-service payment system, we were told, physicians have an incentive to perform too many of the wrong kinds of services. As a result, the cost is too high and the quality of care is too low. Instead, we should pay for value rather than quantity, said the reformers.

So how well is all that working? Not well at all it turns out.

And here is something really surprising. The Obama administration experimentation with payment systems only applies to Medicare. Yet the only place in all of Medicare where reform ideas appear to be working are in the Medicare Advantage plans. (See my discussion at the Health Affairs Blog.) You may remember that candidate Obama actually campaigned against these plans in the 2018 election and the Obamacare legislation will reduce the governments payments to these plans and discourage further enrollment.

The Obama administrations vehicle for change was to be the Accountable Care Organization, which you can think of as a new generation HMO. In The New York Times yesterday, an editorial by Bob Kochner and Farzad Mostashari claimed that their ACO in McAllen Texas has saved millions of dollars and raised the quality of care for the patients. They go on to say:

Today, more than 5.3 million Medicare beneficiaries nationwide are served by more than 360 A.C.O.s, which have helped hold spending hundreds of millions of dollars below Medicare targets for this period.

They may be right about their own ACO, but a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds generally that the experience of the pilot ACO projects has been fairly dismal. In their first year, only 29 percentof the physician-led ACOs and only 20 percentof the hospital-sponsored ACOs turned a profit. And among those that did so, the results were fairly mediocre.

Further, to help the ACOs perform better the Obama administration has spent tens of millions of dollars on demonstration programs and pilot projects, investigating coordinated care, integrated care, managed care, pay-for-performance medicine, electronic medical records systems, etc. The result? Three separate Congressional Budget office reports have concluded that none of this is working, or at least not working very well. (See here, here and here.)

So whats wrong with ACOs? What follows is taken mainly from my Health Affairs post. (And be sure to look at the comments as well.)

For starters, there is a 427 page book of rules, describing what an ACO has to do in order to be an ACO. The administrative burdens are so large that the average ACO spends $2.2 million on startup costs alone. From that point forward, the ACO functions like a (highly) regulated utility.

Medicare patients do not choose an ACO. They are assigned to one. The ACOs are forbidden to market to prospective customers, and seniors dont even know they are in one until they are contacted by the ACO they are assigned to. Even then, the communication is tightly regulated. Any letter from the ACO to a new member must be approved by CMS and all introductory letters essentially look alike. In general, no ACO is able to have a better promotional piece than a competitor.

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HOW SHE DID IT: Pursuing an MD-PhD at Harvard Medical School, with Diane Shao (MOGUL 2014) – Video

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HOW SHE DID IT: Pursuing an MD-PhD at Harvard Medical School, with Diane Shao (MOGUL 2014)
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UofL opens renovated medical school instructional building – Video

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Ushering in a new era in medical education, officials with the University of Louisville School of Medicine formally celebrated the completion of a $9 million renovation of the school #39;s 40-year-ol...

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Dr. Charles Spivak: Atheist Who Became Catholic – The Journey Home Program – Video

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Born and raised Catholic, Dr. Spivak slowly lost his faith as a teen and collegian. He did not leave the Church in anger. He just could not find any reason to believe in God. In college and...

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State Treasurer: "LA needs another med. school"

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Today at the Rotary Club, State Treasurer, John Kennedy spoke about plans for a medical school right here in Lafayette.

"It's clear to me that we need a new medical school in Louisiana" State Treasurer John Kennedy said as he spoke to a full house at the Rotary Club about the possibility of a new medical school.

"Louisiana, like a lot of states, is facing a physician shortage, particularly in primary care, a third of our population lives in a federally designated primary care shortage area" said Kennedy. Louisiana has more physicians over 60 than under 40, and The American Medical Association estimates that by the year 2025, the country will experience a shortage of 140,000 physicians, according to Kennedy. The treasurer says, "Other states are doing something about it. In the last few years 29 states built a new medical schools. Louisiana is behind but we can catch up."

According to Kennedy, because of the city's fast growing and diversified economy, Lafayette would be an ideal location.

"We have a very sophisticated healthcare community already. We have a new teaching hospital here in Lafayette General as a result of our public private partnerships where we privatized our Charity Hospital system.

Kennedy says LSU officials are interested in opening a new medical school here in Lafayette. The estimated cost for the new medical school would range from 9 to 15 million dollars.

Kennedy says the project still needs support from the Healthcare, political and the civic communities of Lafayette. He ensures that the funding will not take money from any other entity nor will taxes it raise taxes.

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Fort Smith Lands Economic Grant For Medical School

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WASHINGTON Fort Smith and Pine Bluff have each received $1.2 million grants from the Economic Development Administration for infrastructure improvements that are projected to create 89 jobs.

The Fort Smith grant will be used for road and sidewalk improvements as well as construction of a parking lot for the planned Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine. Fort Smith expects the project will add 65 year-round jobs and generate a donation of land worth $4 million, according to EDA.

With an opening target date of fall 2016, the proposed school is expected to serve about 600 students when fully operational.

Pine Bluff will use its $1.2 million grant to upgrade about 40 miles of rail line that would be available to local businesses and manufacturers as an alternative mode of transportation during natural disasters. The rail improvements are also part of a broader effort to restore and improve rail service in southeast Arkansas and northeast Louisiana to attract new industry to the area. About 24 jobs are expected from the improvements, according to EDA.

Leveraging federal dollars with local investment in the 3rd District is essential to ongoing projects that will secure our future and strengthen our community, Rep. Steve Womack stated in a news release. I applaud this announcement, which ensures the infrastructure in Fort Smith is ready to support the new Arkansas Osteopathic Medical School, addressing a shortage of physicians in our state, and supports the efforts of the World Trade Center at the University of Arkansas to diversify our states economy so it isnt as vulnerable to the negative impact of natural disasters.

The grants were revealed as part of a broader release of funding for Arkansas and six other states. In all, Arkansas received $9 million in grants to upgrade critical infrastructure and support resiliency efforts in the state that in recent years has suffered tornadoes, flooding and severe storms.

The grants would enable communities across Arkansas to be more economically resilient in the wake of future natural disasters and other challenges, said U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.

The grants are projected to create more than 1,100 jobs, retain 20 existing jobs and generate more than $2 million in private investments, according to EDA.

Other Arkansas grants include:

$1.1 million to construct a commercial hangar at the Stuttgart Municipal Airport.

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Clayton County 8th-grader dies after medical emergency at school

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A Clayton County middle school community is grieving over the death of an 8th-grader, who died after a medical emergency at school Thursday.

The girl, identified as Andrea Pinson, was a student at Pointe South Middle School in Jonesboro, Channel 2 Action News reported.

Staff members at the school tended to the student until an ambulance arrived, Vicki Constantinides, spokeswoman for Clayton schools, said. The girl was taken by ambulance to Southern Regional Hospital, but did not survive. No details about the type of medical emergency were released.

She suffered some kind of physical ailment, Constantinides said. We dont know what at this point. All we know is she needed emergency help and thats what we got for her.

A crisis team assembled at the school early Thursday afternoon. Parents were being notified by phone and letter, Constantinides said.

Some students, overcome with grief, asked their parents to pick them up from school, Channel 2 reported.

I was just like Mom, can you come pick me up? One of my friends passed away and I cant stand being here right now, friend Citlaly Guerrero said, with her mother by her side.

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Today vs the Founders: Are Things Worse for Liberty? (TAC001) – Video

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When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence to separate from the British empire, things were bad for liberty. Real bad. But how would it compare today? Are we better off due to...

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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories – Part 11.20 Taking The Peace – Video

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