Monday, December 28, 2009




A sign appears in the looming health care battle... and the loser will be the public...

Heart Doctors are suing Sebelius over what will eventually become health care rationing in the detection and treatment of heart disease... make no mistake about it.

This will be an interesting law suit to follow.


USA Today
Cardiologists sue Sebelius over Medicare fee cuts

Heart specialists on Monday filed suit against Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius in an effort to stave off steep Medicare fee cuts for routine office-based procedures such as nuclear stress tests and echocardiograms.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, charges that the government's planned cutbacks will deal a major blow to medical care in the USA, forcing thousands of cardiologists to shutter their offices, sell diagnostic equipment and work for hospitals, which charge more for the same procedures.

CARDIAC REHAB: More is better for Medicare patients

"What they've done is basically killed the private practice of cardiology," says Jack Lewin, CEO of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), which represents 90% of the roughly 40,000 heart specialists in the USA.....

This is only the beginning as bureaucracy continues it's efforts to take over health care...

Consider and ponder.

xtnyoda, shalomed

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