20 minute lecture
by Twila Brase, President of Citizens Council for Health Freedom
Hippa is not a privacy law, but a disclosure law. Over two million entities have access to your records without your knowledge.
Doctors being scored on compliance with gov’t issued protocols. They’re scored on % of people vaccinated in their clinic.
Vast majority of preventive measured do not save money. (New England Journal of Medicine) Nevertheless, government is going full steam ahead, placing preventive medicine requirements on doctors.
More dependent on government = less concerned about their health
Three recommendations
1) Bring market prices back to medicine.
2) Restore health insurance to true insurance. Get rid of entitlement care. Let individuals own their policies.
3) Repeal healthcare reform law, prohobition against catastrophic insurance, and ability of gov’t to tell us what to buy.
15 minute talk
Alieta Eck, MD, President-elect of Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
* Nixon poured a lot of federal $$$ into HMOs for prevention & “health maintenance”
* Government supervision / evaluation of doctors make very sick patients the enemy for fear of bad ratings. In Florida doctors refuse to treat some very sick or uncooperative patients.
* Doctor being sued by patient for not recommending colon screening. Doctor hadn’t seen patient in 18 years. Doctors should not also be made liable for not recommending preventive stuff.
* Mark 2:17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Luke 5:31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”
Matthew 9:12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
Q&A
* Doctors support for 2 reasons
– it feels good to claim federal programs on your resume and on your behalf.
– They’re caught up in doing well in the scoring system. (MN scoring system on five things: A1C, Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, Whether stops, smoking, whether patient takes asprin every day.)
* 10 Doctor practice hiring 7 people to manage mandated electronic records!!! This is the cost of government programs.
* Blame Congress for HMOs: www.cchfreedom.org/privacy/hmoart.php3
* “Evidence Based medicine” kills innovation. Doctors need to spend time explaining why they aren’t taking the government’s one-size-fits-all solution to a medical problem. Instead of physicians practicing medicine, it is bureucrats (who don’t see patients) practicing medicine.