Healthcare Reform & Health Policy

Healthcare Reform & Health Policy Perspectives

Government Ban on Seven Words Creates Anger Among Physicians Last year, the Washington Post reported that the CDC was banned from using seven scientific words. What do physicians think of the ban?
Medscape Business of Medicine, January 19, 2018
CVS-Aetna Deal Turns Up the Heat on Physicians The proposed merger of CVS and Aetna exemplifies the devolution of medicine to a business rather than a caring profession, warns Dr Melissa Walton-Shirley.
theheart.org on Medscape, January 18, 2018

An Outbreak of Hepatitis A Among the Homeless
Medscape Infectious Diseases, January 9, 2018
Upcoming MACRA Requirements for Patient Engagement
American Academy of Family Physicians, January 5, 2018
Trump's Mental State: Dangerous Despite No Diagnosis?
Medscape Psychiatry, December 21, 2017
Buprenorphine Prescribing by NPs and PAs
Medscape Nurses, December 18, 2017

Alert New HHS Division to Protect Clinicians With Religious Objections The Trump administration opens the new unit within HHS to focus on claims of coercion on medical staff to perform abortions and other procedures over religious objections.
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2018
Cognitive Test Given to Trump Is a 10-Minute Routine Screening The cognitive test on which U.S. President Donald Trump received a perfect score is considered a good screening tool for mental decline in an otherwise healthy person, medical experts said.
Reuters Health Information, January 18, 2018