Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice by Non Participation in Government Programs and Understanding the Devastating Force of Government

by admin on 06/20/2011 1:19 AM
  • Medicine and Liberty – Network of Liberty Oriented Doctors, www.MedLib.ch/, Alphonse Crespo, MD, Executive Director and Founder
    Medicine & Liberty (MedLib) is an independent physician network founded in 2007, dedicated to the study and advocacy of liberty, ethics & market in medical services.
    – We support professional autonomy for doctors and liberty of choice for patients
    – We uphold the Hippocratic covenant that forbids action harmful to the patient
    – We defend responsible medical practice and access to therapeutic innovation free from
    bureaucratic obstruction
    – We work towards a deeper understanding of the role and importance of liberty & market in
    medical services
    MedLib is part of a wide movement of ideas that defends
    – the self-ownership principle & the property rights of individuals on the products of their
    physical and intellectual work
    – free markets, free enterprise and strict limits to the role of the State

SPEAKING HONESTLY AND OPENLY ABOUT OUR BROKEN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

From 2001 – 2011, Dr. Farrago was the editor and creator of the Placebo Journal which ran for 10 full years.  He was featured in the Washington Post, US News and World Report, the AP, and the NY Times.

Authentic Medicine was born out of concern about where the direction of healthcare is heading and the belief that the wrong people are in charge. Only when physicians regain control and connect back to the roots of this profession will we ever have AUTHENTIC MEDICINE again.
The mission of Authentic Medicine is to rediscover how much the art of medicine means and allow us to reconnect to our roots once again. It is about fighting back against those things that are taking us away from the direct care of patients while still pointing out the lunacy and hypocrisy of this job. Be part of the movement that will take back the healthcare system from the idiots who are ruining it.

Email Dr. Farrago – doug@authenticmedicine.com

  • Reason Foundation:http://reason.com/about: Reason and Reason Online are editorially independent publications of the Reason Foundation, a national, non-profit research and educational organization.
    Reason is the monthly print magazine of “free minds and free markets.”  It covers politics, culture, and ideas through a provocative mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews. Reason provides a refreshing alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinion magazines by making a principled case for liberty and individual choice in all areas of human activity.
    Reason Online is updated daily with articles and columns on current development in politics and culture. It also contains the full text of past issues of the print edition of Reason. Reason Online is entirely free.
  • Entrepreneur-Country. Julie Meyer, CEO of Ariadne Capital, recently launched Entrepreneur Country. Read their manifesto for information:  3. The bigger the State grows, the weaker the people become – big government creates dependency . . .  5. No real, sustainable wealth creation through entrepreneurship ever owed its success to government . . .  11. The triple play of the internet, entrepreneurship, and individual capitalism is an unstoppable force around the world, and that Individual Capitalism is the force that will shape the 21st Century . . .  Read the entire  manifesto . . .
  • Americans for Tax Reform, www.atr.org/, Grover Norquist, President, keeps us apprised of the Cost of Government Day® Report, Calendar Year 2014. Cost of Government Day (COGD) is the date of the calendar year on which the average American worker has earned enough gross income to pay off his or her share of spending and regulatory burdens imposed by government on the federal, state and local levels. Cost of Government Day for 2014 was July 6th a ten-day decrease above last year’s revised date of July 16th. With July 6th as the COGD, working people must toil on average 186 days out of the year just to meet all the costs imposed by government. In other words, the cost of government consumes 53 percent of national income. If we were to put health care into the public trough, the additional 17 percent of GDP that healthcare costs, would allow the government to control 70 percent or nearly three-fourths of our productivity and destroy our health care in the process. We would have almost no discretionary income.

Read more: . . . http://www.ntu.org/ratecongress/page/computation

  • Citizens Against Government Waste, www.CAGW.org, America’s Taxpayer’s Watch Dog.

Since 1984, Citizens Against Government Waste has been the resource that policymakers, media, and the taxpaying public rely on for the bottom line behind today’s headlines. Waste News is the first stop for reporters covering government spending. Members of the Media visit our media page to sign up for email updates or to set up interviews with CAGW policy experts.
Porker of the Month will introduce you to some of government’s worst pork-barrel offenders.
“To advocate an efficient, sound, honest government is neither left-wing nor right-wing, it is just plain right.” –J. Peter Grace, CAGW Co-Founder

  • Evolving Excellence—Lean Enterprise Leadership. Kevin Meyer, CEO of Superfactory, has a newsletter which impacts health care in many aspects. Join his evolving excellence blog . . .  Excellence is every physician’s middle name and thus a natural affiliation for all of us. This has now evolved into http://www.gembaacademy.com/ a superb cyberspace workshop for LEAN Marketing.
    A recent blog: The Customer is the Boss at FAVI “I came in the day after I became CEO, and gathered the people. I told them tomorrow when you come to work, you do not work for me or for a boss. You work for your customer. I don’t pay you. They do. . . . You do what is needed for the customer.” And with that single stroke, he eliminated the central control: personnel, product development, purchasing…all gone.
    Looks like something we should import into our hospitals. I believe every RN, given the opportunity, could manage her ward of patients or customers in similar lean and efficient fashion.
  • FIRM: Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine, www.westandfirm.org, Lin Zinser, JD, Founder, researches and studies the work of scholars and policy experts in the areas of health care, law, philosophy, and economics to inform and to foster public debate on the causes and potential solutions of rising costs of health care and health insurance .

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