Congress Health Care Reform: Congressional Budget Office Score of Affordable Health… Thomas Sullivan Nov 2, 2009 0 The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) completed a preliminary analysis of…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act Physician Payment Sunshine Act: House Affordable Health Care for America… Thomas Sullivan Oct 30, 2009 0 The US House of Representatives released their latest version of the “Affordable Health Care for America Act,” which contains new…
Conflict of Interest JAMA: Reform of Continuing Medical Education – Still Living in 1910 Thomas Sullivan Oct 29, 2009 0 A recent commentary published in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) begins its call for reforming continuing medical…
Congress Letters from Grassley: Health Information Technology and Medical Errors Thomas Sullivan Oct 29, 2009 0 With talk of health care reform overshadowing many of the important details of how to change the health care system, there is…
Congress Letters from Grassley: Grassley to NIH Why No Disclosure on Resolved… Thomas Sullivan Oct 28, 2009 0 Senator Charles Grassley’s (R-IA) latest letter to the NIH follows an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that noted…
Congress Protecting Americans from Drug Marketing Act – Who Will Protect Us from the… Thomas Sullivan Oct 27, 2009 0 Why do politicians want to punish an industry that is developing medications to cure disease? You would think they would applaud…
Healthcare Reform Health Care Reform: America’s Health Ranking is Fatally Flawed Thomas Sullivan Oct 27, 2009 1 Although relying on statistics seems to be a common practice in politics, the U.S. ranking of 37th in the world for health care…
ACRE Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Doctors’ Presentations Help Patients Thomas Sullivan Oct 27, 2009 0 Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel includes an editorial by Thomas Stossel, MD titled Doctor’s Presentations Helps…
Congress Letters from Grassley: National Alliance for Mental Illness — Now We… Thomas Sullivan Oct 26, 2009 0 The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) is one of the nation’s best organizations. Founded by relatives (parents and…
AMA AMA CEJA: Good Ideas Using Bad Logic Thomas Sullivan Oct 23, 2009 0 In response to a third report on Continuing Medical Education (CME) issued by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA)…