There’s a lot of consternation and maybe even a little constipation of late about the U.S. federal budget, and rightly so. If the White House and Congress can’t come to some resolution about budget sequestration, the FDA budget could tighten…
Category Archives: Federal Deficit
The policy dilemma of prostate cancer screening
January 10, 2012 – 9:40 PM
Screening for various diseases is controversial these days thanks to the U.S. Public Services Task Force and similar agencies in other nations, which have suggested a more cautious approach to screening. These suggestions have been blasted by doctors and…
Parallel review: Still not a big deal?
October 11, 2011 – 7:14 AM
Well, FDA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are at it again with parallel review, but this time they’ve tacitly acknowledged what everyone knew all along; that it would never be willingly adopted by more than a…
What docs are hearing about healthcare reform’s finances
September 27, 2011 – 10:32 AM
Healthcare reform has as a million audiences, and it’s interesting to see what some of them are reading about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Let’s look at an opinion piece appearing recently in the New England Journal…
Fee diversion alive and well in H.R. 1249
June 22, 2011 – 3:04 PM
Those with a keen eye trained on the patent reform bill now under consideration in the House of Representatives might universally hold a dim view of fee diversion even if they see first-to-file and the prior user defense through profoundly…
Doc fix awaiting another patch
May 31, 2011 – 11:02 PM
Now that the U.S. House of Representatives has voted down a higher debt ceiling for the U.S. government, Congress can go back the drawing board on deciding how many Medicare spending cuts the voters and stakeholders can stomach, but as…
Obama, House propose cuts to healthcare as part of deficit reduction plans
April 21, 2011 – 9:02 AM
President Barack Obama unveiled his deficit reduction plan last week, calling for a mix of spending reductions and tax hikes that the White House claims would cut federal deficits by $4 trillion over the next 12 years without gutting popular…
