Posts tagged health care reform

• Lessons To Learn From Justice John Paul Stevens

  Diego Avila | June 17, 2010 5:12 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  With Senate confirmation hearings for his replacement candidate to take place sometime this summer, I wanted to take the time to reflect on the vast imprint Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens...

• New Health Care Reform Law Will Help Chronically Ill Michigan Residents Get Coverage

  David Mittleman | May 01, 2010 3:01 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  By the end of this year, chronically ill Michigan residents should have the opportunity to purchase affordable health care insurance, thanks to the recently passed Health Care Reform Act. In a...

• AAJ Goes Underground to Debunk Rumors About Tort Reform

  David Mittleman | December 04, 2009 10:00 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The American Association for Justice is getting an important message across by advertising in Union Station throughout December. Blanketing the metro station’s walls, the message reads...

• Women are second class citizens in Bart Stupak's America

  Devon Glass | November 08, 2009 9:24 AM | 26 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  History was made last night as the House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill, and now it's up to the Senate to pass one as well. The bill passed does have a public option and will...

• Why Do Doctors Always Think They Are Entitled To Special Treatment?

  David Mittleman | October 02, 2009 9:59 AM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Lansing State Journal on just this topic. The truth is, it's not just my friend and anesthesiologist Dr. Kenneth Elmassian, who takes this viewpoint -...

• Health Care Bills Must Maintain Focus on Reducing Injury, Not Reducing Patients' Rights

  David Mittleman | September 20, 2009 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In his speech to the joint session of Congress, President Obama hinted that he would consider approaching the issue of medical malpractice liability to show he is willing to compromise with...

• Tort Reform Not a Panacea for Decreasing Health Care Costs

  David Mittleman | August 22, 2009 9:37 AM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  So far critics have mostly focused on tearing apart health care reform by portraying it as “socialist” or as a “Nazi” agenda with a federal government “death...

• Don't Be Fooled by Phoney Town Hall Unrest on Health Care Reform

  David Mittleman | August 05, 2009 4:14 PM | 43 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Yesterday I blogged about a new tactic that a plastic surgery firm was using to entice consumers to try their facelift procedure: by having their own employees post positive internet reviews of...

• Don't Believe the Hype that Affordable Health Care for Everyone is a Bad Idea

  David Mittleman | June 11, 2009 12:13 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Senator Shelby (R-Ala.) is apparently living in a world of his own: he currently stated on “Fox News Sunday” that Obama will “destroy the best health care system the world has...