Hennessy's Highlights

Who Gets to Decide?
Mike Hennessy, Friday, August 13th 2010
As the regulations that will define the shape of our reformed healthcare system are fleshed out, evidence continues to emerge that our legislators may have burdened us with a raft of new rules that could do lasting damage to physicians and their patients. Far from promoting greater access and improved care, these changes may instead end up denying patients' freedom of choice, degrading physicians' clinical decision-making authority, and disrupting the trusted physician-patient relationship.

AUTHOR BIO

Mike Hennessy is Chairman and CEO of MJH & Associates, the publisher of many influential journals, including The American Journal of Managed Care, Pharmacy Times, MDNG, Politics, Oncology & Biotechnology News, and Physician's Money Digest. As a businessman, entrepreneur, and a publisher of magazines and websites that focus on the financial and professional needs of physicians, Hennessy is intimately familiar with the challenges physicians face in today's competitive practice environment.

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Hennessy's Highlights dissects the healthcare policy issues that impact physicians, particularly those who are running their own practices.