Reject drug industry perks, doctors urged - JSOnline

Reject drug industry perks, doctors urged - JSOnline
"With the integrity of the medical field at stake, the influential Institute of Medicine said financial deals between the drug industry and doctors, medical schools and the medical profession need to be restricted.

The institute's sweeping recommendations call on medical professionals — from university professors to family doctors — to shun financial arrangements with companies that flourished over the past three decades."
Also, note the side bar list of past articles about the conflict of interest issues.
Now, in addition to stopping this drug trade business with docs, I sure hope Congress will outlaw those drug ads on TV.

Health group launches $1M ad buy - Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com

Health group launches $1M ad buy - Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com: "A conservative group is launching a $1 million ad buy Tuesday designed to tap into fears about the U.S. moving toward a nationalized system of health care.

Conservatives for Patient Rights will run a month of 60-second ads on CNN and Fox News that feature doctors from Britain and Canada describing the pitfalls of their nations’ health care."

Michele Swenson: Insurance Does Not Equal Health Care: Specious Arguments by 'Free-Market' Opponents of Colorado Single Payer Bill

Michele Swenson: Insurance Does Not Equal Health Care: Specious Arguments by 'Free-Market' Opponents of Colorado Single Payer Bill
"Paralysis around health care reform is exacerbated by specious rhetoric surrounding Single-Payer health care. Lazy media fail to look behind corrupted rhetoric, while corporate interests spin the debate to serve their bottom lines."

Interview with Robert Kuttner on single-payer health care

http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/84766/#
Thanks to Tim at GMHCC for this link.

Testimony of David U. Himmelstein

"Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D.
Before the HELP Subcommittee
April 23, 2009
Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee. My name is David Himmelstein. I am a
primary care doctor in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Associate Professor of Medicine at
Harvard. I also serve as National Spokesperson for Physicians for a National Health
Program. Our 15,000 physician members support non-profit, single payer national health
insurance because of overwhelming evidence that lesser reforms will fail."
Full five minute testimony - click here.

A Five Point Plan -- Funny But All TOO True

A Disruptive Innovation

I ran across Behzad Mohit articles in the Huffington Post. His first one is on how Universal Health Care Can Save our Econonmy. The next one was on Quality Control.
He has all this summarized in a short book available for free on line at
http://uhc.helpeachother.com/
The direct link to the pdf file for the book is
http://uhc.helpeachother.com/download/uhc.book.download.pdf

Some of his ideas may be off base but some are right on. He is trying to present a simple solution and some of his ways of explaining things could be useful.
Tying the possibility for major change to the concept of Disruptive Innovation is intriguing. Focusing on one payment system that is non-profit as a way to get past the anti-government arguments has possibilities.