…could be considered of no clinical consequence. Doctors who want to use colchicine to prevent heart disease will be able to legally write off label prescriptions for the lower cost…

…own healthcare decisions. … So, if that’s where they want to label me, I’m more than happy to take the label.” AB: This comment was made about J.D Vance and…

…vaginal creams. The controversy There may be some validity to a limited change in the label of female hormone replacement products. The original study showing the potential for harm from…

…MSNBC, and others. And more, most of it indicative of a desire to have state-controlled media instead of a free press. “FCC Broadcast Accountability” came under the label of “Reform.”…

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

Besides her comments on the growing lack of influence of the AMA on Healthcare reform Maggie Mahar at Health Beat Blog writes about Medicare breaking the cost curve of the…

…the SGR to make the budget appear to be leaner and included the hypothetical cuts in his budget. President Obama has not incorporated the cuts in the budget and Congress…

…higher acuities are colliding with the nursing shortage. A proposed solution is bundling. President Obama mentioned it in his 6/15 speech to the AMA. How does it work? The hospital…

…mention this classic: Milton Friedman and Simon Kuznets, Income from Independent Professional Practice (NBER, 1945). Dr. Friedman has often argued that we should abolish the AMA as “state licensing procedures…

…average in 1976 to 4% less than the national average today. Maryland also has generous Medicare payments as set by an AMA committee, which has been blamed for lower costs…