|
Red State
States With Expanded Health Coverage Fight Bill With tax revenues down and budgets breaking, the states including Arizona,
California, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin say they cannot afford to essentially subsidize other states expansion of health
care.
http://healthinsuranceinfo.net/
| State issues: |
|
| Click here. |
Medical Whistleblowers Win Stimulus Breakthrough
Hospital trustees naturally promote themselves as safe for
patients and doctors. For career-safety, we advise all doctors to practice in 3 independent hospitals: All
politics is local. There is no way to predict which states will treat doctors well by the time you start practice
~12 years after starting college, so all this information is retrospective and speculative.
States belong to federal court circuits some of which have
made decisions that bear on where to practice. See States 2. ~25
states have the Initiative or the Referendum.
If patients as citizens ever desire honest peer-review of their local hospitals, these measures may be relevant, but
reform will take many years.
http://www.westandfirm.org/blog/2009/02/where-does-your-state-rank.html
#2551 of 2990, Added By: An_12681977, MD, Surgery, General, 11:21PM Sep 08, 2009 |
States that assumed contractual obligations without establishing them as of 2000:
Colorado,
see Even v. Longmont United Hosp. Ass'n, 629 P.2d 1100, 1103 (Colo. Ct. App. 1981)
Massachusetts, see Duby v. Jordan Hosp.,
341 N.E.2d 876, 879 (Mass. 1976)
Mississippi, see Wong v. Stripling, 700 So. 2d 296, 300-02 (Miss. 1997)
Ohio, see
Bouquett v. St. Elizabeth Corp., 538 N.E.2d 113, 115-16 (Ohio 1989)
Oklahoma, see Ponca City Hosp., Inc. v. Murphree,
545 P.2d 738, 742 (Okla. 1976)
Virginia, see Medical Ctr. Hosps. v. Terzis, 367 S.E.2d 728, 729 (Va. 1988)
States
where "medical staff bylaws alone are not a contract, but, in the context of the entire relationship between the physicians
and the hospital, they are enforceable as part of a larger contractual relationship":
Connecticut, see Gianetti v.
Norwalk Hosp., 557 A.2d 1249, 1252-55 (Conn. 1989); Owens v. New Britain Gen. Hosp., 643 A.2d 233, 239 n.25 (Conn. 1994)
States
where the medical staff bylaws are not a contract:
Georgia, see St. Mary's Hosp., Inc. v. Radiology Prof'l Corp.,
421 S.E.2d 731, 736 (Ga. Ct. App. 1992)
Iowa, see Tredrea v. Anesthesia & Analgesia, P.C., 584 N.W.2d 276, 284-87
(Iowa 1998) (establishing requirements for bylaws to qualify as a contract)
Mississippi, see Sullivan v. Baptist Mem'l
Hosp. - Golden Triangle, Inc., 722 So. 2d 675, 680-81 (Miss. 1998) (but see above)
Missouri, see Zipper v. Health Midwest,
978 S.W.2d 398, 415-17 (Mo. Ct. App. 1998) (but equitable relief is available under bylaws)
North Dakota, see Robles v.
Humana Hosp. Cartersville, 785 F. Supp. 989, 1001 (N.D. Ga. 1992)
Ohio, see Munoz v. Flower Hosp., 507 N.E.2d 360, 365
(Ohio Ct. App. 1985) (lack of contract because lack of mutuality of obligation); Holt v. Good Samaritan Hosp. & Health
Ctr., 590 N.E.2d 1318, 1322 (Ohio Ct. App. 1990)
States where hospital bylaws are contractually binding on a hospital,
but not medical staff bylaws:
Iowa, see Tredrea v. Anesthesia & Analgesia, P.C., 584 N.W.2d 276, 284-87 (Iowa
1998)
Maryland, see Ishak v. Fallston Gen. Hosp. & Nursing Ctr., 438 A.2d 1369, 1372 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 1982)
Texas,
see Gonzalez v. San Jacinto Methodist Hosp., 880 S.W.2d 436, 438-39 (Tex. Ct. App. 1994) (but see above)
Tennessee rejects
the distinction, see Lewisburg Cmty. Hosp., Inc. v. Alfredson, 805 S.W.2d 756, 759 (Tenn. 1991)
|
 |
|
|
| ~4,600 hospitals: |
|
| Click picture. |
|
|
|
|
|
| States of Debt |
|
| Click here. |
| Ranking By Business-Costs: |
|
| "Health Care Policy Cost Index." Click here. |
Where Does Your State Rank? By Paul Hsieh, MD co-founder Freedom and Individual
Rights in Medicine "The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council has come up with a handy guide to rank the 50
US states (plus the District of Columbia) based on how badly their regulation raise the cost of health insurance. Some
of the measures include the number of mandates, whether the state requires "guaranteed issue", community rating, and employer
mandates, whether it allows tax-free use of Health Savings Accounts." Here's their guide: "Health Care Policy
Cost Index: Ranking the States According to Policies Affecting the Cost of Health Care" http://www.sbecouncil.org/uploads/SBEC%20polseries%2033%20-%20SBSI-Health%5B1%5D%202-3-09.pdf And their conclusions: Among the 50 states and District of Columbia, the best 15 states in terms of state
health care policies are: 1) Idaho, 2) Utah, 3) Iowa, 4t) Michigan, 4t) Ohio, 6) Alaska, 7) South Carolina, 8) South Dakota,
9) Pennsylvania, 10t) Nebraska, 10t) Wyoming, 12) District of Columbia, 13) Kentucky, 14) North Dakota, and 15) Oklahoma.
Meanwhile, the worst states are: 37) Minnesota, 38) New Hampshire, 39t) North Carolina, 39t) Rhode Island, 41) Florida,
42) New York, 43) New Jersey, 44) Colorado, 45) Maryland, 46) California, 47) Vermont, 48) Connecticut, 49t) Maine, 49t) Washington,
and 51) Massachusetts. Our elected officials talk a great deal about "solving the health care crisis." Unfortunately,
the origins of the crises can largely be traced back to governmental policies that raise the costs of health care, and thereby
limit the availability of health care coverage. If policymakers are serious about having a positive impact on health
care, then significantly limiting the number of mandates and regulations makes sense at the federal and state levels. Obviously,
I wish Colorado ranked higher than 44th. But at least we have the examples of lots of other higher-ranked states to point
to in the public policy debate! http://www.westandfirm.org/blog/2009/02/where-does-your-state-rank.htmlPoll: Have you seen this yes|no|
|
|
|
|
|