Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE As the healthcare debate heats up the meaning of consumer driven healthcare (CDHC) needs repeating. The true meaning of CDHC has been bastardized by the healthcare insurance industry as represented by Health Savings Accounts (HSA). The healthcare......

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP, MACE Mr. Obama has promised a quick, hard push to overhaul the healthcare system. Americans can expect a quick push to build a larger federal bureaucracy, impose price controls, restrict the use of new medications and technologies,......

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE   President-elect Barack Obama is inviting Americans to spend part of the holiday season talking about health care -- and report back to him. He is encouraging average Americans to host informal gatherings to brainstorm about how to improve the U.S. system. Thomas A. Das...

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE Our financial crisis can be an instrument of change in a positive direction. America’s obesity epidemic is a weapon of mass destruction destined to cause another financial crisis. An increase in the complications of chronic disease can cause an economic meltdown if the ...

  Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE A great comment was sent to me by an Emergency Physician in reference to the increased Emergency Room visits despite the increase in insured people in the state of Massachusetts. He referred me to his blog. Unfortunately the destined to fail Romney healthcare plan ...

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP, MACE   Why would the Senate initially vote against S. 3101 and H 6331? Why would President Bush threaten to veto it? “ Nine Republicans who had voted against cloture last week pivoted to produce a potentially veto-proof 69-30 vote in favor of linking another temporary ...

  Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE   The administrative difficulties in the physicians’ work environment are increasing physician discontent. “In a survey last year of nearly 2,400 physicians conducted by a physician recruiting firm, locumtenens.com , 97 percent said they were frustrated by...

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE It is getting harder and harder for senior citizen on Medicare to find a physician who takes Medicare patients. Many physicians are not taking Medicare reimbursement because the government continually decreases reimbursement. In many cities Medicare reimbursement is lower...

Stanley Feld M.D., FACP, MACE Dr. Aaron Carroll and Dr. Ronald Ackerman, the principal authors of the 2003 survey and 2008 letter in the Annals of Internal Medicine, states very clearly that physicians support a national health insurance plan. They does not state whether physician support a governme...

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE I could never understand why my understanding of the original Medical Savings Accounts presented by John Goodman in 1994 slowly got changed to a Health Savings Accountsounding the same but using a different formula for payment and savings. Many consulting firms worked har...