Black doctors group supports 'play or pay' on health reform

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The National Medical Assn, an 8,000-member black physicians group, advocates a play-or-pay system of health care and believes that black physicians are being excluded from discussions of national health care reform. The group is concerned about the future of the health care system and how the system will deal with increasing numbers of uninsured, which now reach over 35 million people. The association has adopted proposals with which it hopes to solve the nation's health care problems. These proposals include regional risk pools, Medicaid reform and creation of a National Health Board.

Analysis, Social policy, Associations, Medical policy, Health policy, Health care reform, African American physicians, National Medical Association

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Will you take an IOU? Clinicians feeling effects of California's cash crunch

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California physicians and hospitals that treat Medicaid patients are extremely inconvenienced by receiving IOU's in lieu of payment since the legislature has failed to approve a budget. The impasse, since July 1, 1992, may influence doctors to drop out of the Medi-Cal program, which will impact needy patients. Some pediatric clinics, such as the Sacramento Children's Memorial Clinic Inc, in which 98% of patients depend on Medi-Cal, may not be able to remain open.

Legislative bodies, Economic policy, Budget, Budgeting, Budgets, California, California. Legislature

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Medical community seeking consensus on assisted suicide

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A Michigan court cleared Dr. Jack Kevorkian of murder charges in the suicide deaths of two women who were assisted by Kevorkian, a retired pathologist. Kevorkian has lost his license to practice in Michigan. Right-to-die legislation is being considered by the state legislature, the Hemlock Society, the bar association, and others. Michigan physicians and concerned citizens disagree on whether terminally ill patients should be assisted in ending their own lives.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Cases, Assisted suicide, Ethical aspects, Kevorkian, Jack

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