- Jon Lewis | December 05, 2009 1:49 PM | Birmingham, AL
Category:
Tractor-Trailer Accidents
Did you know that hospitals and physicians rarely ever receive the amount they charge for their services? Health insurance companies do not pay the actual bills invoiced by medical professionals....
- Pete Mackey | December 21, 2009 8:24 AM | Mobile, AL
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Miscellaneous
I must admit that, although I have long supported healthcare reform, the onslaught of columns and op/ed pieces screaming about the cost of doing so has had me running scared. On the one hand, even...
- Jon Lewis | June 26, 2008 9:00 AM | Birmingham, AL
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Medical Malpractice
Doctors I meet always discuss the malpractice problem. They seem to worry about lawsuits to an incredible degree. Yet, the statistics show that doctors and hospital win an overwhelming majority of...
- Pete Mackey | December 01, 2009 8:53 AM | Mobile, AL
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Miscellaneous
A recent study by researchers based at harvard has found that the lack of health insurance causes almost 45,000 deaths annually in the U.S. The American Journal of Public Health first published the...
- Pete Mackey | October 19, 2009 8:22 AM | Mobile, AL
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Miscellaneous
Last Wednesday, my firm and another lawyer went over to the local Sherriff's office and drafted 17 wills, durable powers of attorney and advanced healthcare directives for first responders. This was...
- Pete Mackey | August 24, 2009 8:52 AM | Mobile, AL
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Miscellaneous
Though there has been press coverage of Wendell Potter's changing role, it has been curiously light. In June, he testified before Congress on the abuses of HMOs. Now he's back in the picture,...
- Pete Mackey | March 24, 2010 9:18 AM | Mobile, AL
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Miscellaneous
How will we pay for it? It's un-constitutional. We are now the United Socialist States of America ... Back off of the ledge, catch your breath, relax and count to ten. Think back two years -...
- Pete Mackey | September 23, 2009 8:36 AM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Remember the opening scene in the movie 10? The elderly woman sitting in a chair against the wall lets one loose, whereupon the sleeping dog next to her bolts out of the room. As Dudley Moore...
- Pete Mackey | August 30, 2009 5:17 PM | Mobile, AL
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Miscellaneous
The healthcare bill being considered seems to have a 1000 angles. One of the problems with tackling this monster is that it has many causes, and most of those causes lead back to a special interest...
- Danny Feldman | August 19, 2009 9:52 AM | Birmingham, AL
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Miscellaneous
The specter of town-hall meetings - full of people yelling and screaming - often of facts that not only are completely wrong, but also bizarre, and then becoming 15 minute stars as guests of local...