Claim: Pediatric ophthalmologist Dr. Zane Pollard penned an editorial on health care reform entitled "ObamaCare and Me."
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Example: [Pollard, 2009]
I have been sitting quietly on the sidelines watching all of this national debate on healthcare. It is time for me to bring some clarity to the table by explaining many of the problems from the perspective of a doctor.
First off, the government has involved very few of us physicians in the healthcare debate. While the American Medical Association has come out in favor of the plan, it is vital to remember that the AMA only represents 17% of the American physician workforce.
I have taken care of Medicaid patients for
cornea perforates from the infection, almost surely blindness will occur. In all three cases the antibiotic needed for the eradication of the infection was not on the approved Medicaid list.
Each time I was told to fax Medicaid for the approval forms, which I did. Within
Each time the request came back denied. All three times I personally provided the antibiotic for each patient which was not on the Medicaid approved list. Get the
Over the past 35 years I have cared for over 1,000 children born with congenital cataracts. In older children and in adults the vision is rehabilitated with an intraocular lens. In newborns we use contact lenses which are very expensive. It takes Medicaid over one year to approve a contact lens post-cataract surgery. By that time a successful anatomical operation is wasted as the child will be close to blind from a lack of focusing for so long a period of time.
Again, extreme rationing. Solution: I have a foundation here in Atlanta, supported
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Origins: Dr. Zane F. Pollard is a pediatric ophthalmologist with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, who describes his background as follows:
I did my undergraduate work at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. I graduated Tulane University medical School Alpha Omega Alpha (medical school's top 10% of graduating class). Internship at the Univ. of Southern California in
Dr. Pollard's above-referenced editorial on health care reform, entitled "ObamaCare and Me," was published on the American Thinker web site on
Last updated: 18 August 2009