A Reality Check On State Medicaid Expansion
Colin McNickle, of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,  recently published a diatribe against expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in this past Saturday’s e…
About the Blogger
- Christopher Hughes is a critical care medicine physician in Pittsburgh, with over twenty years experience. He has been a leader in organized medicine including the Pennsylvania Medical Society, AMA, and others. His special areas of interest are health care policy (domestic and international), patient safety, palliative and end of life care, patient advocacy, alternative dispute resolution, medial ethics, and medical professionalism. He has served Doctors for America as State Director for Pennsylvania.
Editor's Note: Any views or opinions presented on this blog are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the hospitals, clinics, and institutions where they work, teach, and study.
Recent Posts
Senator Toomey, Welcome to our World!
I recently received  an email from Senator Pat Toomey, describing his fight to have federal rules waived in order to facilitate the receipt of a lung transplant by a young girl …
Health care for all: Expanding Medicaid would save lives, suffering and money
I am proud to support the mission of Doctors for America: let's put Patients ahead of Politics!  Many thanks to The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, who published this op-ed I wrote ear…
You have to be taught to hate...
The views expressed on Progress Notes are those of our dedicated bloggers, and are not necessarily the position of Doctors for America   That, of course, is a memorabl…
Columnist not horrible, but surely not good
An email was going around last year, warning voters of yet another unbelievably atrocious component of ObamaCare which, of course, was untrue. I had received the same email from my s…
Replace?
Put me down as an optimist, but I do not think the Supreme Court will invalidate the individual mandate and I will be so bold as to predict a 6-3 decision or better. Having…
The Sunshine Provision
The relationship between US pharmaceutical, device manufactuirers and physicians is a long and complicated one. One of the big complications is the amount of money that…
Parsimony And Medicine
I wasn't planning on writing about rationing of health care again, since we covered it in my last post prompted by Don Berwick's resignation from CMS. But two stories came…
Rationing of Healthcare in America
“The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.” This quote from Don Berwick, now the for…
Who's Afraid of IPAB?
Yesterday, 20 physicians' organizations, largely representing procedure based specialists and sub-specialists, sent a letter to the "Super-Committee" asking them to recomme…
