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DJP Update 12-14-2010 Some Happy Holiday News! DJP Jr selected as new Executive Director of Medical Association of Georgia!

Dec 14

Posted by Dr. Donald Palmisano in DJP Updates

DJP Update 12-14-2010 Some Happy Holiday News! DJP Jr selected as new Executive Director of Medical Association of Georgia!

Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) Website home page: http://www.mag.org/

MAG press release re Donald J. Palmisano Jr: http://www.mag.org/pdfs/newsreleasepalmisano2010.pdf

Here is press release from MAG:

FOR RELEASE DECEMBER 14, 2010

Contact Tom Kornegay at 678.303.9260 or tkornegay@mag.org

PALMISANO TO ASSUME ROLE AS MAG EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ON JANUARY 10

ATLANTA – Donald J. Palmisano Jr. will succeed David A. Cook as the Medical Association of Georgia’s (MAG) executive director on January 10, MAG President Dan DeLoach, M.D., announced today.

Last week, Georgia Gov.-elect Nathan Deal announced that Cook will become the Commissioner of the state Department of Community Health. Having joined MAG in 2006, Palmisano has been MAG’s General Counsel and Director of Government Relations.

“There is a clear consensus among our physician leaders that Donald J. Palmisano Jr. has the kind of exemplary background and skill set and strategic vision that we need to lead this organization in 2011 and beyond,” Dr. DeLoach said. “And that’s critical when you consider that the medical profession has never faced such considerable challenges.”

Palmisano stated that, “We are going to maintain our role as the leading voice for the medical profession in Georgia, and we’re always going to do what’s best for patients in the state.” He added that MAG will focus on the issues that physicians have said matter the most to them, including tort reform and health insurance reform and Medicare/Medicaid.

Palmisano also stressed that MAG will be upgrading its continuing medical education programs for physicians, as well as helping its members cope with the effects of the new national health care bill.

Palmisano represented individual physicians as a private practicing attorney from 1999 to 2005. He graduated from the Loyola School of Law in New Orleans, where he was a member of the National Moot Court Team.

Of Cook, Dr. DeLoach said, “Physicians in this state owe him a huge debt of gratitude for his tireless efforts and his countless contributions to the medical profession.”

MAG has more than 6,000 members. Go to www.mag.org for additional information.

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DJP Comment: We are proud of you, son! And best wishes for success to David Cook in his new role as Georgia’s Commissioner of the state Department of Community Health. And thanks to physicians of MAG for their continued leadership in fighting government’s destructive interference in the practice of Medicine!

Stay well,

Donald

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DJP Update 12-13-2010 PPACA individual mandate ruled unconstitutional by Federal Judge in Virginia

Dec 13

Posted by Dr. Donald Palmisano in DJP Updates

DJP Update 12-13-2010 PPACA individual mandate ruled unconstitutional by Federal Judge in Virginia

See the entire 42 page opinion at: http://is.gd/iGdvP

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Excerpts:

“Whether the Minimum Essential Coverage Provision, which requires an individual to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty, is borne of a constitutionally-enumerated power, is the core issue in this case.”

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“On careful review, the Court must conclude that Section 1501 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act–specifically the Minimum Essential Coverage Provision–exceeds the constitutional boundaries of congressional power.”

DJP Comment:

Haste in drafting laws and rushing through Congress makes waste! Now the “spin” will start.

Stay well,

Donald

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Intrepid Resources® / The Medical Risk Manager Company

5000 West Esplanade Ave., #432

Metairie, Louisiana USA 70006

504-455-5895 office

504-455-9392 fax

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DJP Update 12-10-2010 The Rest of the story about PPACA – more to come in the months ahead! Here is a survey from The Physicians Foundation

Dec 13

Posted by Dr. Donald Palmisano in DJP Updates

DJP Update 12-10-2010 The Rest of the story about PPACA – more to come in the months ahead! Here is a survey from The Physicians Foundation

Press release at: http://www.physiciansfoundations.org/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=250

This link tells who is on the board of The Physicians Foundation: http://www.physiciansfoundations.org/AboutDetails.aspx?id=44

You will note these are various medical society executives and physicians.

For example, here are the officers of The Physicians Foundation:

Louis J. Goodman, PhD, President

Texas Medical Association

Alan Plummer, MD, Vice President

Medical Association of Georgia

Walker Ray, MD, Vice President

Medical Association of Georgia

Robert Seligson, Treasurer

North Carolina Medical Society

Larry Braud, MD Secretary

Louisiana State Medical Society

3 EXCERPTS of survey November 18, 2010

Nation’s Frontline Physicians Unhappy With Health Care Reform Measures

The Physicians Foundation today released the results of a national survey of physicians that finds strong negative feelings towards the new health care reform law and fear that patient care will suffer in the months and years ahead. The survey was intended to gauge physicians’ initial reaction to the passage of health reform and to learn the ways in which they plan to respond to it.

The research, conducted by Merritt Hawkins, a national physician search and consulting firm, on behalf of the Foundation, comes on the two-year anniversary of the Foundation’s first national physician survey that found growing dissatisfaction among doctors as they struggle with less time for patient care and increased time dealing with non-clinical paperwork, difficulty receiving reimbursement and burdensome government regulations. The new research reinforces those findings and shows that the new health care reform could intensify existing problems for doctors and worsen the shortage of primary care doctors, making it more difficult for patients to access quality care.

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The new research reinforces those findings and shows that the new health care reform could intensify existing problems for doctors and worsen the shortage of primary care doctors, making it more difficult for patients to access quality care.

“Physicians support reform; in fact, we were the ones leading the fight against the status quo. But this new research shows that doctors strongly believe the law is not working like it needs to – for them, or for their patients,” said Lou Goodman, PhD, President. “For any health care reform effort to be successful, it must include the viewpoint of our nation’s doctors. Their perspective from the front-lines of patient care is critical in determining what’s broken in our system and how we can fix it.”

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Key research findings include:

• The majority of physicians (60%) said health reform will compel them to close or significantly restrict their practices to certain categories of patients. Of these, 93% said they will be forced to close or significantly restrict their practices to Medicaid patients, while 87% said they would be forced to close or significantly restrict their practices to Medicare patients.

• 40% of physicians said they would drop out of patient care in the next one to three years, either by retiring, seeking a non-clinical job within healthcare, or by seeking a non-healthcare related job.

• The majority of physicians (59%) said health reform will cause them to spend less time with patients.

• While over half of physicians said health reform will cause patient volumes in their practices to increase, 69% said they no longer have the time or resources to see additional patients in their practices while still maintaining quality of care.

• 67% of physicians said their initial reaction to passage of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was either “somewhat negative” or “very negative” and a great majority (86%) believes the viewpoint of physicians was not adequately represented to policy makers during the run-up to passage of the law.

• Physicians are almost evenly divided over the relative importance of SGR (36%) and health reform (34%) to their practices, while 30% are unsure which will have the greatest impact.

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End of excerpts.

On the road at the moment. Plane about to take off. More info later!

Stay well,

Donald

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Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD

Intrepid Resources® / The Medical Risk Manager Company

5000 West Esplanade Ave., #432

Metairie, Louisiana USA 70006

504-455-5895 office

504-455-9392 fax