Government regulations improve our lot - not!

Article Abstract:

The American Medical Association House of Delegates is seeking to abolish the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 and the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. All of these represent good ideas that have been poorly implemented. For example, the NPDB was intended to be a national database of malpractice information for hospitals. However, it took years to implement and has been mismanaged. The AMA agrees with the underlying principles of these measures but believes that a simpler, less bureaucratic system must be developed to implement them.

Social policy, United States. Health Resources and Services Administration

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Long-neglected Medicaid must be fixed - and soon

Article Abstract:

The Medicaid program, which provides health care for the poor, suffers from neglect and underfunding, partly because about 57% of patients treated by Medicaid are children, who do not vote. Although administered by 50 different state programs, Medicaid must serve the needs of a growing population of poor or risk possible disaster. However, some members of Congress propose 'block grants' that lack definition and control. Medicaid funds should support nursing home care for Medicare recipients.

Medicaid, Care and treatment, Poor

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Medical marijuana - physicians caught in the middle

Article Abstract:

Voter approval of marijuana as a medical substance in California and Arizona makes it clear that the federal government should encourage scientific studies of the plant's medical aspects and allow controlled prescription by doctors. An important step would be to identify marijuana as a Schedule II drug, which would permit its prudent usage. The government already allows medical prescriptions of morphine and other drugs under certain circumstances.

Police Protection, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Drug Control, Drugs, Narcotics control, Marijuana

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