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Chiropractic Practice for sale in California (just posted)

2010-05-13T15:33:00.002-05:00

Chiropractic Practice for sale just posted at http://www.chiropracticjobfinder.com in California see

http://www.chiropracticjobfinder.com/index.php?ct=propp2&md=details&id=4746

Here is more detailed information of visit the site above:

State/Country: California
City/State: San Diego
Specific Location (City,State): SOUTHERN (NEAR SAN DIEGO), CA,

Brief Description: SOUTHERN (NEAR SAN DIEGO), CA, PRACTICE FOR SALE: 8-1/2 year family practice collecting $228,884.00. Dr take home before taxes $124,792.00. Open 3-1/2 days. 204 new patients. 3,200 total visits. One hour to downtown San Diego. 45 minutes to Pacific Beach. One hour toDisneyland. Excellent schools – new developments – growing commerce. Cost of living much lower (even 50% less) than the San Diego coastal communities. Must sell –Will sacrifice for $110,000.00! D.C. accepted into D.O. school. Pix on web! Cost of living much lower (even 50% less) than the San Diego coastal communities. 100% financing O.A.C.

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Cancer Institute Warns of Cell Phone Risks and MUA Seminar CEU's

2009-07-17T13:40:00.003-05:00

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*Important information on Cell Phone Risks and Cancer
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*Upcoming Seminar on MUA for CME credits

Upcoming Seminar on MUA for Continuing Education Credits

Watertower Surgicenter in Chicago, IL is offering a Manipulation Under Anesthesia Seminar on July 30-August 1, 2009. Sponsored by Logan College, participants will be eligible for 34 hours of CME credit.

The course will be taught by Paul Madison, MD and Ted Cook, DC. Patients will be provided for proctorship.
The cost of the course is $400, and interested parties should call or e-mail

Christopher Reyes at 312-654-5481 / creyes@wtsurgi.com.

Cancer Institute Warns of Cell Phone Risks

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http://ping.fm/J6Bpm

The head of a prominent cancer research institute has issued an unprecedented
warning to his faculty and staff: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

The warning came from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh
Cancer Institute. Herberman says his warning is based on early unpublished data. He argues
that people should take action now -- especially when it comes to children.

"Really at the heart of my concern is that we shouldn't wait for a definitive study to
come out, but err on the side of being safe rather than sorry later," Herberman said.

There are many simple precautions that you can take to reduce your exposure to
information-carrying radiowaves and the electromagnetic radiation emitted from
your cell phone – both of which are hazardous to your health. Here are my best guidelines:

* Children Should Never Use Cell Phones: Barring a life-threatening emergency,
children should not use a cell phone, or a wireless device of any type. Children are far
more vulnerable to cell phone radiation than adults, because of their thinner skull bones.

* Reduce Your Cell Phone Use: Turn your cell phone off more often.
Reserve it for emergencies or important matters.

* Use A Land Line At Home And At Work: Although more and more people are
switching to using cell phones as their exclusive phone contact, it is a dangerous
trend and you can choose to opt out of the madness.

* Reduce or Eliminate Your Use of Other Wireless Devices: You would be wise to
cut down your use of these devices. Just as with cell phones, it is important to ask
yourself whether or not you really need to use them every single time. If you must
use a portable home phone, use the older kind that operates at 900 MHz.
They are no safer during calls, but at least they do not broadcast constantly even when no call is being made.

* Use Your Cell Phone Only Where Reception Is Good: The weaker the reception,
the more power your phone must use to transmit, and the more power it uses,
the more radiation it emits, and the deeper the dangerous radio waves penetrate into
your body. Ideally, you should only use your phone with full bars and good reception.

* Turn Your Cell Phone Off When Not In Use: As long as your cell phone is on,
it emits radiation intermittently, even when you are not actually making a call.

* Keep Your Cell Phone Away From Your Body When It Is On: The most
dangerous place to be, in terms of radiation exposure, is within about six inches
of the emitting antenna. You do not want any part of your body within that area.

* Use Safer Headset Technology: Wired headsets will certainly allow you to
keep the cell phone farther away from your body. However, if a wired headset
is not well-shielded -- and most of them are not -- the wire itself acts as an antenna
attracting ambient information carrying radio waves and transmitting radiation directly
to your brain. Make sure that the wire used to transmit the signal to your ear is shielded.

The best kind of headset to use is a combination shielded wire and air-tube headset.
These operate like a stethoscope, transmitting the information to your head as an actual
sound wave; although there are wires that still must be shielded, there is no wire that goes all the way up to your head.

I hope you enjoyed this research.

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May Chiropractic practice Gem of the Month!

2009-05-11T23:46:00.003-05:00

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- Practice Gem of the Month:

Thank you Dr. Russ Rosen and Dr. Angie Meyer with Rosen Chiropractic Coaching for :
"How do I run a successful wellness chiropractic practice without using scare tactics?"

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Geyer Springs Chiropractic Practice for Sale so check it out

Practice Gem of the Month:

"How do I run a successful wellness chiropractic practice without using scare tactics?"

By Dr. Russ Rosen

Founder and CEO of Rosen Coaching

PATIENT SCARE VS. PATIENT CARE

There are companies out there that pride themselves on "scaring their patients" into submission
by using threats of the "devastating effects of subluxations." Rest assured, I absolutely understand
the life limiting and devastating effects of subluxations, but I do not ever feel it is appropriate or
necessary to "scare someone into care."

Imagine yourself a new patient in my office, you are in pain and you are scared. You have already heard
weird things about these cracktopopers, and I come in to greet you and I start to scare the heck out of you... remember
that is my intent. I start telling you about the devastating effects of this subluxation and that you will die a miserable slow death
if you don't become a patient of mine for life... How is your breathing, how do you feel? Do you feel that you can heal from this
space? As a doctor is this the place you want to open up a relationship with another human being who is in need?

We've all been manipulated by hype and fear. We've had the high pressure car salesperson put the pen in our hand and tell us to sign. So, how did that feel for you? When people try to scare you into a relationship or agreement it may work for the short run, but does it work for the long run? Does it lead to long term healthy enjoyable relationships?

I remember being with a group of chiropractors using a very well known practice management company, and they were boasting about how many people burst into tears when the doctor finally told the patient the terrible news, that they had subluxations. The doctors felt that if the patients did not react the same as if they were told they had cancer, then the doctors didn't do their job right.

In my experience there are better, more honest and honoring ways to communicate what we know with our patients, while attaining better results in the long run.

From my perspective, running a successful chiropractic practice is all about connecting with and empowering other human beings; not about controlling your patients. It's about using "patient care tactics" not "patient scare tactics." I don't feel it is ever needed or appropriate to use fear tactics or hype them up on emotions to get them to sign, or to do what we want them to do.

Patient Care is all about treating our patients as we would want to be treated.

Start by assuming your patients are bright, intelligent and loving human beings who want the same thing you want; - a solution to their problems. Learn to listen and speak your truth in an honoring non-confrontational way. Tell your patients what I call truth and consequences, always give them reasonable choices and you will never need to dishonor yourself or them with "scare tactics" again.

If you are interested in finding out more about Dr. Russ Rosen or Dr. Angie Meyer,
please go to www.rosenchiropracticcoaching.com/angie to get FREE Downloads to help you
thrive in these economic times in a TRUE wellness practice!

Want to see if Rosen Coaching can help your practice? Have a FREE 30 minute consultation with Dr. Angie or Dr. Russ!
Contact us at info@rosencoaching.com to book yours today!

Featured Ad of the month:

Geyer Springs Chiropractic is the featured practice for sale of the month

Practice for Sale

Type:	Offered
Company:	Geyer Springs Chiropractic
State/Country:	Arkansas
City/State:	Little Rock
Specific Location (City,State):	Little Rock, AR
Brief Description: Busy chiropractic office for sale. Practice in same location for 28 yrs sees over 200 pv/wk and still growing! Low overhead. This is the second owner, doctor relocating 2 hrs away in home town. Good balance of Insurance, PI, and cash. 2700 sq/ft free standing brick building (recently remodled) is also for sale with practice listed at $160,000. Incredible opportunity!
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March Practice Gems from www.ChiropracticJobFinder.com

2009-03-12T23:22:00.002-05:00

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-March Practice Gem:

Thank you Matt Prados with www.ChiropracticTraffic.com for :

"How do you make more money and convert more patients using the Internet?"

-Feature Company: ChiropracticTraffic.com

-Featured Doctor of the Month: Dr. Brian Seymore of Maryland Spine Institute

March Practice Gem:

How do you make more money and convert more patients using the Internet?

“Beyond Website Traffic, Where is the Beef, Conversion Counts” by Matt Prados
Co-Founder www.ChiropracticTraffic.com

Many people talk about driving traffic to your website or having your site ranked
high on Google. I have consulted so many chiropractors that have that yet with their poorly
designed website or virtual brochure they may get 100 people per month to visit
their site but 0 calls!

Every month 3,844,000 people search chiropractic on google in the United States.
With only 50,000 chiropractors in the US that would mean about 80 new patient leads for
each doctor if they were evenly spread out. Are you getting your fair share?
A survey done in 2006 showed that 74% of adults in the US go to the internet
when they want to learn about something or make a new purchase.

Do you get 80 leads per week?

Do you have a virtual brochure?

Look at your website and see if you were a patient in pain looking for help would
your website be enough to get you to call in to your office?

If you think so now look is your phone number even on the front page?

Funny but true.

The chiropractic profession needs to stop looking at their websites as a
chiropractor and start looking as a patient in pain.

Start studying “conversion optimization” this is what is wrong with 99% of all
chiropractic website today.

Because at the end of the day if your site isn’t producing new patients why bother
having it?

Any website design company worth the price of admission should not have any longer
term contract because if you aren’t happy with their service you should be able
to walk away.

May all your traffic convert!

For a FREE e-book on chiropractic web design, social media and internet marketing
visit our website at www.chirotraffic.com.

Matt Prados
(714) 664-5120
www.chiropractictraffic.com

Featured Company: www.ChiropracticTraffic.com

Please go to www.ChiropracticTraffic.com as they have some great ideas and tools to help you build your practice!

Matt Prados is extremely easy to get a hold of and is very quick to respond to e-mail inquiries.

Everyone can learn more about the web and how it can help potential patients find us.

Featured Doctor:

Dr. Brian Seymore of Maryland Spine Institute.

He is always willing to give advice and is a wealth of knowledge.

He has many valuable research articles on his website that you can use on your website or as patient education including:

1. “The spinal discs are avascular, meaning they don’t have an independent
blood supply. So they cannot heal

on their own, they require compression and
decompression (pumping action found in normal motion of healthy discs)

to allow
oxygen and nutrients into the disc, which promote healing.”View Research

McNally DS, Adams MA. Internal Intervertebral Disc Mechanics as Revealed by Stress Profilometry. Spine 1992; 17:66-73.

2. “Abnormal stresses (e.g. decreased disc height, herniation, etc.) through
the discs prevent exchange of

oxygen and nutrients which causes metabolic
breakdown of the disc. This breakdown leads to further breakdown

of the disc.”View Research

Handa, et al. Effects of hydrostatic pressure on matrix synthesis and
matrix metalloproteinase

production in the human lumbar intervertebral disc.
Spine 1997; 22:1085-91.

3. “Prolonged stresses through the spinal discs inhibit healing of the disc,
and leads to

prolonged degeneration of the disc.”
View Research

Liu et al. Nitric Oxide Mediates the Change of Proteoglycan Synthesis in
the Human Lumbar Intervertebral

Disc in Response to Hydrostatic Pressure.
Spine 2001; 26(2):134-41.

4. “70% to 83% of spinal surgeries are FAILURES… meaning the patient has
the same pain or worse pain afterward.”
View Research

Dvorak, J. Gauchat M., and Valach L. The Outcome of Surgery for Lumbar Disc
Herniation. A 4-7 Years

Follow-up with Emphasis on Somatic Aspects. Spine,
Volume 13., No 12., 1988, 1418-1427.

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Check out the article written: Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey

2009-02-11T23:38:00.001-06:00

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This was sent to me today so please read below as it is VERY important about the future healthcare in the U.S....

(Click the link below… or cut and paste the url into your browser)

Basically, the article says doctors must lose autonomy and

there will be "penalties" if they don't treat patients the way the

government says they should...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

please pass it along to any doctors and patients to increase awareness.

Here is the full article

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey

Commentary by Betsy McCaughey

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.

New Penalties

Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)

What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.

The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.

Elderly Hardest Hit

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).

The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.

In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests before the board reversed its decision.

Hidden Provisions

If the Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill passes the Senate in its current form, seniors in the U.S. will face similar rationing. Defenders of the system say that individuals benefit in younger years and sacrifice later.

The stimulus bill will affect every part of health care, from medical and nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined (90-92, 174-177, 181).

Hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional. Daschle supported the Clinton administration’s health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay. A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. “If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it,” he said. “The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol.”

More Scrutiny Needed

On Friday, President Obama called it “inexcusable and irresponsible” for senators to delay passing the stimulus bill. In truth, this bill needs more scrutiny.

The health-care industry is the largest employer in the U.S. It produces almost 17 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. Yet the bill treats health care the way European governments do: as a cost problem instead of a growth industry. Imagine limiting growth and innovation in the electronics or auto industry during this downturn. This stimulus is dangerous to your health and the economy.

(Betsy McCaughey is former lieutenant governor of New York and is an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The opinions expressed are her own.)

To contact the writer of this column: Betsy McCaughey at Betsymross@aol.com

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2009-02-04T23:04:00.003-06:00

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-February Practice Gem: Thank you Dr. Loop for "6 Chiropractic Internet Marketing Tactics that Work"
-Featured Ad of the Month : Congrats to Congrats to Williams Chiropractic for the Featured Ad
-Feature Company: VolumePractice.com
-Featured Doctor of the Month: Dr. Pyzik

February Practice Gem:

6 Chiropractic Internet Marketing Tactics That Work

(For the full version of his article, please contact Dr. Loop. His company's information is below)

Are you a chiropractor who's purchased an expensive website, only to find that new patients are not knocking your door down like your practice management group promised you? If you don't have a steady stream of online traffic, your office will not be noticed or found.

When it comes down to it, getting boatloads of traffic couldn't be easier in today's time. The problem is, chiropractic internet marketing that works is NOT taught in school and hardly any consultants are teaching it. Thesetraffic generation methods have been single-handedly responsible for me generating over five figures every month just in online income.

1. first thing that you can do is begin to implement article marketing. I recommend at least writing one article a week yourself.

2. Get a blog going for your practice. Once your blog is up, you'll want to add to it a few times a week. You can include articles, videos, press releases or podcasts on the blog. Blogs get indexed very well by the search engines as well. Wordpress and LiveJournal are two of the main hosts out there you may want to consider.

3. Third, regular posting on forums like Yahoo Answers is a good way to get good traffic. Make it a habit to take 15 minutes a day to post comments in relevant and highly targeted forums.

4. Continuing on, social networking (AKA social marketing) is another solid Web 2.0 medium to use with your chiropractic internet marketing campaign. Social media sites likeLinkedIn, Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster can allow you to easily connect with members in your community and create trust.

5. pay per click ( or PPC) advertising. Google, MSN, Yahoo, and other networks offer this targeted service as a way to get instant traffic to your chiropractic website. Make sure you set a spending limit every day so you don't go broke.

6. Finally, we arrive at chiropractic video marketing. It's been said recently, and I can tell you from a great deal of personal experience, that video is the most powerful medium for allowing yourtarget market or local community to get to know you!

Application of each of these proven tactics in your chiropractic internet marketing arsenal has the potential to dramatically change your practice life.

- Matthew Loop, DC

For more information on proven internet marketing visit http://DCincome.com now.

Featured Ad of the month:

Congrats to Williams Chiropractic

ID#: 911; Date posted: January 21, 2009; Expire date: January 21, 2010; 30 visits

Type:	Job Offered
Company:	--
State/Country:	Michigan
City/State:	Detroit metro
Specific Location (City,State):	Wyandotte, MI
Brief Description: SE MICHIGAN - Unique opportunity to live & work in a lovingly restored and historic home/office combo and landmark in the downtown area of a vibrant Detroit riverside suburb. This position provides salary, amazing living accommodations, incentives, and the owner will be out of state, meaning you can make the practice truly your own! Great place to raise a family. Email: timothyjwilliams@wyan.org

Best Way to Contact Us:	e-mail;

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Featured Company: VolumePractice.com

Please go to www.VolumePractice.com for their practice for sale.

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Featured Doctor: Dr. Pyzik

Thank you for all of your time and advice. It is always greatly appreciated. He has such informative information the he always distributes in his newsletters and he is one of the most well versed Chiropractors I have had the honor of meeting.

Go to www.YourStrongBones.com for more information

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Great Practice Gem for January 2009!

2009-01-17T16:53:00.004-06:00

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-January Practice Gem: Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister
-Featured Ad of the Month : Congrats to Paragon Group for the Featured Ad of the month
-Feature Company: Chiropractic Bookstore
-Featured Doctor of the Month: Dr. Pettke

January Practice Gem:

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Prime Minister

Featured Ad of the month:

Congrats to Paragon Group for the Featured Ad!

Practice for Sale: Las Vegas, Nevada

Ad posted by member 'Info@eparagongroup.com'

ID#: 899; Date posted: January 16, 2009; Expire date: January 16, 2010; 1 visits

Type:	Offered
Company:	The Paragon Group
State/Country:	Nevada
City/State:	Las Vegas
Specific Location (City,State):	Las Vegas, Nevada
Brief Description: This highly profitable practice with a 70% profit margin is located in very busy shopping center location in a 1,400 sq ft fully equipped office. 175 PV a week and an average of 40 or more new patients per month. Lease renewed to 2013. The owner will stay as long as necessary to insure new owner is successfully transitioned to patients and referral sources. For further information, call The Paragon Group at (800) 582-1812 or visit our website, www.eparagongroup.com.
Contact Name:	The Paragon Group
Contact Phone:	800-582-1812
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Featured Company: Chiropractic Bookstore

Please go to www.ChiropracticBookstore.com for this and many other Chiropractic Books.

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Featured Doctor: Dr. Pettke
Thank you for all of your time and advice. It is always greatly appreciated.

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Goal Setting for the New Year!

2008-12-07T17:03:00.003-06:00

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-December Practice Gem: Goal Setting for the New Year
-Featured Ad of the Month : Dr. Tom Morgan with Volume DC!
-Feature Company: Masters Circle
-Featured Doctor of the Month: Dr. Dennis Perman

December Practice Gem:

Day 92 : How To Set Goals
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It is a 365 day program that is free and this is Day 92 which is perfect to review before the New Year.

Brainstorm. Before you choose a single goal to set and focus on, use a blank sheet of paper to write down as quickly as possible all the things you want in the following categories: Artistic, Career, Educational, Ethical, Family, Financial, Mental,
Physical, Pleasure, Social, Spiritual, and any other. There is no need to include detail here. Once you have created this list, prioritize each of the items on your list. This will allow you to begin immediately focusing on the potential goals that are most important to you.

Goal Setting Steps

Identify your goal. Pick the goal you will be setting and write the goal in positive terms
as if you have already reached the goal. For example, "I weigh a lean, mean 170 pounds".
Make sure your goal is quantifiable, that is, do not simply say "I want to be lean".
Write your goal with as much detail as possible at this time while remaining flexible. For example,
on your way to purchase a red Ferrari, if you find that you like the silver Ferrari much better, then buy that one.

Put your goal through the test by asking questions. Is this really your goal or someone else's goal?
Is this goal bold enough? Do you honestly believe you can achieve this goal? If not, why? List the limiting
beliefs you have and change your beliefs. Does this goal conflict with any of your other goals? How would you
feel 5, 10, 20 and 50 years from now if you never achieved this goal? Would it really matter? Having asked and
answered all of these questions about your goal, do you still want this goal?

Set a "maturity date" for your goal's achievement. It is important to have both long and short-term goals.
Set the exact day that this goal will be achieved.

Identify the obstacles you must overcome in order to achieve your goal. Who or what will be an obstacle for you in
the process of pursuing this goal? How can you overcome these obstacles?

Identify the people, groups and organizations you need to work with in order to achieve your goal. Must you
rely on others to meet this goal? Or perhaps with help from others this goal can more easily be met?

Identify the skills and knowledge needed to help you achieve your goal. What can you learn that will help you achieve this goal?

Ask yourself if you are willing to pay the price in order to enjoy the benefits. A goal is a goal because of the
effort it takes to achieve. Is that effort worth it to you? Are you willing to overcome the obstacles, work with the
people, and acquire the skills needed to see this goal through? Are you 100% committed to this goal?

List benefits of achieving and reasons why you are committed to your goal, and visualize yourself having already achieved the goal.
What pain will you experience in your life if you do not achieve this goal? Here you create enough leverage to convince
yourself that you must absolutely reach your goal. It is this step where you turn the want into desire.

Repeat the steps above for each of your goals. Once you do this, you will have created a clear strategy to the
achievement of your goals. Tomorrow, we will conclude this three-day section on goals with the most important
aspect of goals, which is the achievement of them.

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ID#: 807; Date posted: December 5, 2008;

Type:	Offered
Company:	Dr. Tom Morgan
State/Country:	Colorado
City/State:	Colorado-ALL other
Specific Location (City,State):	CO Springs, CO
Brief Description: PRACTICE FOR SALE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - $40,000.00. Practice and real estate available. Doctor relocating to another city. Transition included. For more info, contact: Dr. Tom Morgan VolumeDC@aol.com, 770 748-6084 www.VolumePractice.com/practices
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Contact Phone:	770 748-6084
Best Way to Contact Us:	e-mail;

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Featured Company: Masters Circle

They have a free feature called MasterTalk where they believe in Educating – Empowering – Entertaining and you can listen
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Featured Doctor: Dr. Dennis Perman

He has a wonderful weekly message that any doctor can sign up for free with valuable insights and information. One can sign up on themasterscircle.com

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"A Rich Dad's Lesson: Never Stop Promoting"

2008-11-24T16:28:00.001-06:00

A Rich Dad's Lesson: Never Stop Promoting

By: Robert Kiyosaki

Author of the Rich Dad series of books, is an investor, entrepreneur & educator whose perspectives have changed the way we view money & investing. Robert Kiyosaki

A few days ago, I spoke at a luncheon with approximately 500 local business leaders. I began with these words: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is you will have fewer competitors next year because many of your competitors will be out of business. The bad news is you might be one of
those out of business."

I then showed them my local newspaper, pointing to the headline
"Businesses Are Struggling." I opened the newspaper and said, "I can tell you who will be in business." I pointed to a full-page ad for a local appliance store.
"I'll bet money that this business will be here next year. Why? Because
this business is advertising more aggressively than its competition."

In previous issues of Entrepreneur, I've written about the importance of
advertising and promotion. I've shared my Rich dad's lesson that when
business drops off, many entrepreneurs listen to their accountant's
advice and cut back on advertising and promotion. That's the worst thing you can do. When times get tough, your job is to promote more, not less.

Promotion is a six-week cycle. That means if I promote today, business
increases six weeks later. Many businesses violate the six-week cycle.
They promote for, say, four weeks, and because nothing happens, they stop. Two weeks later, there's a sudden increase in business. For four weeks,
business remains strong. Then, just as suddenly, business drops off, because six weeks earlier, the entrepreneur had stopped promoting.

My rich dad's lesson was to never stop promoting: Promote whether the
economy is strong or weak; promote even when you may not have the money.
If you have no money, stand on a street corner at lunchtime with a sign
hanging around your neck promoting your product or service. Not only will you meet new customers, but you might also save money on lunch, lose some weight and get a suntan.

Obviously, it takes more than just promotion to do well. To be
successful, a business also requires strong fundamentals and a desirable product or service. During tough economic times, though, even some good businesses fail; some businesses shrink and others grow. When a business closes, its customers migrate to the business that fights hard and stays open.
Businesses that promote while others cut their ad budgets have a better
chance of getting bigger . . . even if the economy is shrinking.

Hope you enjoyed "A Rich Dad's Lesson: Never Stop Promoting"

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Jeremy

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Get More Patients with a Newsletter and use the example Below

2008-11-19T02:01:00.004-06:00

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Newsletter and use example Below

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-Featured Ad : MMA

-Featured Company : Doc For a Day!

- Practice Gem : Use an informative Patient Newsletter
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Featured Ad of the month:

Congrats to MMA Chiropractic Employment Agency for the Featured Ad!

CHIROPRACTOR NEEDED BIRMINGHAM AL

Ad posted by member 'mma@mmachiropractors.com'
ID#: 752; Date posted: November 13, 2008; Expire date: June 1, 2009;

Type:	Job Offered
Company:	MMA
State/Country:	Alabama
City/State:	Birmingham
Specific Location (City,State):	Birmingham
Brief Description: $70,000/year plus, paid holidays, vacation, family practice, diversified,thompson,activator techniques, 100-150 o.v./ week. Call Dr D 800-501-6111.
New or Used:	New

Contact Phone:	800-501-6111
Best Way to Contact Us:	phone; e-mail;

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DOC FOR A DAY!! Dr. Lachman

Doc For A Day! is the Midwest ’s premiere chiropractic doctor temporary service.
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EXAMPLE FOR YOU:

Subject: Use your Insurance and Flexible spending benefits before it is too late

The end of the year is quickly approaching and soon it will be 2009!
Most Deductibles reset at the end of the year .
Most Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) do not carry over to the next year.

Now is the time to schedule any doctors appointments for your health, diagnostic tests, or get any health related equipment needed before 2009.
Everyone's Health Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings accounts, and HRA's work differently.

Please research and understand how your benefits work so you can make the best use of your health benefits now and in the future.
**Please consult your individual health plan for specific details on your specific situation

See below for more detailed information on:

-Health Insurance
-Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
-Health Savings Account (HSA)
-Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)

*source information from Wikipedia with web page included

I will continue to keep these newsletters short and sweet.

Thank you for reading.

If you have follow up questions or suggestions e-mail us at ouroffice@ouroffice.com.
Please feel free to forward this to family or friends.

yours in health,

Dr. John Doe, D.C.

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**The best way to maintain health is to eat well, exercise, and get regular Chiropractic adjustments for alignment and to maintain a healthy nervous system.

Detailed information on:

-Health Insurance
-Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
-Health Savings Account (HSA)
-Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)

*source information included from Wikipedia

Health insurance

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance for more details

From Wikipedia,

The term health insurance is generally used to describe a form of insurance that pays for medical expenses.
It is sometimes used more broadly to include insurance covering disability or long-term nursing or custodial care needs.
It may be provided through a government-sponsored social insurance program, or from private insurance companies.
It may be purchased on a group basis (e.g., by a firm to cover its employees) or purchased by individual consumers.
In each case, the covered groups or individuals pay premiums or taxes to help protect themselves from high or unexpected healthcare expenses.
Similar benefits paying for medical expenses may also be provided through social welfare programs funded by the government.

By estimating the overall risk of healthcare expenses and developing a routine finance structure (such as a monthly premium or annual tax)
that will ensure that money is available to pay for the healthcare benefits specified in the insurance agreement.
The benefit is administered by a central organization, most often either a government agency or a private or not-for-profit entity operating a health plan.^[1]

A health insurance policy is a contract between an insurance company and an individual. The contract can be renewable annually or monthly. The type and amount of health care costs that will be covered by the health plan are specified in advance, in the member contract or Evidence of Coverage booklet. The individual policy-holder's payment obligations may take several forms^[7]:

Premium: The amount the policy-holder pays to the health plan each month to purchase health coverage.
Deductible: The amount that the policy-holder must pay out-of-pocket before the health plan pays its share. For example, a policy-holder might have to pay a $500 deductible per year, before any of their health care is covered by the health plan. It may take several doctor's visits or prescription refills before the policy-holder reaches the deductible and the health plan starts to pay for care.
Copayment: The amount that the policy-holder must pay out of pocket before the health plan pays for a particular visit or service. For example, a policy-holder might pay a $45 copayment for a doctor's visit, or to obtain a prescription. A copayment must be paid each time a particular service is obtained.
Coinsurance: Instead of paying a fixed amount up front (a copayment), the policy-holder must pay a percentage of the total cost. For example, the member might have to pay 20% of the cost of a surgery, while the health plan pays the other 80%. Because there is no upper limit on coinsurance, the policy-holder can end up owing very little, or a significant amount, depending on the actual costs of the services they obtain.
Exclusions: Not all services are covered. The policy-holder is generally expected to pay the full cost of non-covered services out of their own pocket.
Coverage limits: Some health plans only pay for health care up to a certain dollar amount. The policy-holder may be expected to pay any charges in excess of the health plan's maximum payment for a specific service. In addition, some plans have annual or lifetime coverage maximums. In these cases, the health plan will stop payment when they reach the benefit maximum, and the policy-holder must pay all remaining costs.
Out-of-pocket maximums: Similar to coverage limits, except that in this case, the member's payment obligation ends when they reach the out-of-pocket maximum, and the health plan pays all further covered costs. Out-of-pocket maximums can be limited to a specific benefit category (such as prescription drugs) or can apply to all coverage provided during a specific benefit year.
Capitation: An amount paid by an insurer to a health care provider, for which the provider agrees to treat all members of the insurer.
In-Network Provider: A health care provider on a list of providers preselected by the insurer. The insurer will offer discounted coinsurance or copayments, or additional benefits, to a plan member to see an in-network provider. Generally, providers in network are providers who have a contract with the insurer to accept rates further discounted from the "usual and customary" charges the insurer pays to out-of-network providers.

Prescription drug plans are a form of insurance offered through some employer benefit plans in the US, where the patient pays a copayment and the prescription drug insurance part or all of the balance for drugs covered in the formulary of the plan.

Some, if not most, health care providers in the United States will agree to bill the insurance company if patients are willing to sign an agreement that they will be responsible for the amount that the insurance company doesn't pay. The insurance company pays out of network providers according to "reasonable and customary" charges, which may be less than the provider's usual fee. The provider may also have a separate contract with the insurer to accept what amounts to a discounted rate or capitation to the provider's standard charges. It generally costs the patient less to use an in-network provider.

Flexible spending account

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_spending_account

A flexible spending arrangement (FSA), or Flexible Spending Account, as they are commonly called, is one of a number of tax-advantaged financial accounts that can be set up through a cafeteria plan of an employer in the United States. An FSA allows an employee to set aside a portion of his or her earnings to pay for qualified expenses as established in the cafeteria plan, most commonly for medical expenses but often for dependent care or other expenses. Money deducted from an employee's pay into an FSA is not subject to payroll taxes, resulting in a substantial payroll tax savings.

The most common FSA, the medical expense FSA (also medical FSA or health FSA), is similar to a health savings account (HSA) or a health reimbursement account (HRA). However, while HSAs and HRAs are almost exclusively used as components of a consumer driven health care plan, medical FSAs are commonly offered with more traditional health plans as well. An FSA may be utilized by paper claims or an FSA debit card also known as a Flexcard.

An FSA allows money to be deducted from an employee's paycheck pre-tax and then spent on qualified expenses.

Use it or lose it
Any money that is left unspent at the end of the coverage period is forfeited back to the company; this is commonly known as the "use it or lose it" rule.

Health savings account

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account

A Health Savings Account (HSA) is a tax-advantaged medical savings account available to taxpayers in the United States who are enrolled in a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). The funds contributed to the account are not subject to federal income tax at the time of deposit. Unlike a Flexible spending account (FSA), funds roll over and accumulate year over year if not spent. HSAs are owned by the individual, which differentiates them from the company-owned Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) that is an alternate tax-deductible source of funds paired with HDHPs. Funds may be used to pay for qualified medical expenses at any time without federal tax liability. Withdrawals for non-medical expenses are treated very similarly to those in an IRA account in that they may provide tax advantages if taken after retirement age, and they incur penalties if taken earlier. These accounts are a component of consumer driven health care.

Proponents of HSAs believe that they are an important reform that will help reduce the growth of health care costs and increase the efficiency of the health care system. According to proponents, HSAs encourage saving for future health care expenses, allow the patient to receive needed care without a gate keeper to determine what benefits are allowed and make consumers more responsible for their own health care choices through the required High-Deductible Health Plan.

Opponents of HSAs say they worsen, rather than improve, the U.S. health system's problems because people who are healthy will leave insurance plans while people who have health problems will avoid HSAs. This however is just a rehashing of the criticism of current health insurance coverage where the young and healthy are forced to pay higher premiums to subsidize the old and sick. There is also debate about consumer satisfaction with these plans.

Health Reimbursement Account

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Reimbursement_Account

HRAs are initiated by the employer and serviced by a third-party administrator or plan service provider.^{[citation needed]} The employer may provide in the HRA plan document that credit balances in an employee's HRA account can be rolled over from year to year like a savings account.^{[citation needed]} The employer decides if the funds are rolled from year to year and how much rolls over (which can be either a flat amount or a percentage).
According to the IRS, "employees are reimbursed tax free for qualified medical expenses up to a maximum dollar amount for a coverage period"^[1]. HRAs reimburse only those items (copays, coinsurance, deductibles and services) agreed to by the employer which are not covered by the company's selected standard insurance plan (any health insurance plan, not only high-deductible plans).^{[citation needed]} These arrangements are described in IRS Section 105.^{[citation needed]}
Qualified claims must be described in the HRA plan document at inception, i.e., before reimbursing employees for those medical expenses.^{[citation needed]} Arrangements (medical services, dental services, co-pays, coinsurance, deductibles, participation) may vary from plan to plan, and an employer may have multiple plans in place, allowing much flexibility.
The employer is not required to prepay into a fund for reimbursements, instead, the employer reimburses employee claims as they occur.^{[citation needed]}

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November Awards from Chiropracticjobfinder.com

2008-11-12T00:35:00.004-06:00

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November Awards

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See Below for:
-November Practice Gem
-Featured Ad of the Month
-Most Ads Placed by a Company
-Feature Doctor Award

November Practice Gem:

Call patients after their first adjustment to see how they are doing and to answer any questions. It adds a very personal touch.

Thank you for your expertise Dr. W. Salubr!

Featured Ad of the month:

Congrats to Total Lifestyle Chiropractic in Australia!!

Ad stated:

ID#: 692; Date posted: October 21, 2008; Expire date: May 9, 2009;


Company:	Total Lifestyle Chiropractic
State/Country:	AUSTRALIA
City/State:	Other (Australia)
Specific Location (City,State):	Queensland New South Wales South Australian
Brief Description: Fantastic Opportunities for Energetic Associates! TLC is seeking highly motivated, committed associates with skill,integrity & passion for the chiropractic lifestyle, to join our team of caring health professionals. With exciting Vision,Purpose & Mission, TLC curently owns & operates 15 practices throughout Australia. We offer ongoing trainng & coaching with most of our DCs earning over AU$145K per year. We offer 3&4 year associate contracts & deal with all issues relating to your visa & immigration & will help you & your family settle into Australia.

Contact Name:	Ros Green
Contact Phone:	+61 7 49529905
Best Way to Contact Us:	e-mail;

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Most Ads placed:

1. 201 Practices for Sale Listed by Sam Reader! Thank you for posting! Check out all of Sam Readers Practices for Sale at www.chiropracticjobfinder.com

2. 78 Practices for Sale Listed by Paragon Group! Check out Paragon Group Practices for Sale at www.chiropracticjobfinder.com

Featured Doctor Award:

Drs. L. and D. Conant
Thank you for sharing and sending the information on various nutritionals you use in your practice!

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OCTOBER AWARDS from Chiropracticjobfinder.com :

2008-11-12T00:31:00.004-06:00

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OCTOBER AWARDS from

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Most Visited Ad:

185 visits! Congrats to APMD Company in Houston

Ad stated: We provide you with high patient activity,handle all billing and collection ,front and back office support and 360 degree operational support.We’ll train and support you clinically and procedurally.
You can focus on what you were trained for and love to do with your head,hands and heart.We take care of the rest. Compensation comfortably in the top 10% of the field.Clean background checks and rehab focus a must.Important -you must be coachable–know -it- alls need not apply….
Provide your resume,picture,if available-then let’s talk.

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Most Ads placed:

193 Practices for Sale Listed by Sam Reader! Thank you for posting! Check out all of Sam Readers Practices for Sale at www.chiropracticjobfinder.com

Featured Doctor Award:

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Barack Obama Elected President of the United States

2008-11-12T00:29:00.002-06:00

Barack Obama Elected President of the United States

It is a very exciting time for the US and healthcare since one of the centerpieces for Barack Obama’s campaign was the healthcare system. We will see how his administration will take on some of the challenges in Chiropractic and Medicine. We will wait and see how his future plans effect Chiropractic care and our patients.

You can go to see some of the proposed policies at:

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/

Here is a brief description on their homepage:

Barack Obama will make health insurance affordable and accessible to all:

The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing healthcare system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to implement the plan.
Obama will lower health care costs:

The Obama plan will lower health care costs by $2,500 for a typical family by investing in health information technology, prevention and care coordination.
Promote public health:

Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.

Please feel free to post any comments as we would like to hear your opinions.

Have a good day.

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What did Senator Barack Obama have to say about Chiropractic in his Presidential Campaign?

Friday, October 31st, 2008

What did Senator Barack Obama have to say about Chiropractic in his Presidential Campaign?
The following was a letter by the

American Chiropractic Association
2008 Federal Election
Candidate Questionnaire
Senator Obama Response
National Health Care Reform, Question #1:
The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) believes that no national health
care reform plan—no matter how well intended or structured—can realize its
maximum potential to benefit the American people unless it is coupled with, or
designed to achieve, a paradigm shift toward a health care delivery system
focused on wellness and disease prevention—as opposed to the current system,
which is mainly focused on treating patients after they become sick or chronically
ill. Doctors of chiropractic and their holistic approach would be fully integrated
into such a system, and viewed by the public as essential elements for achieving
good health. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view? (Please
elaborate fully.)
Although we spend more than $2 trillion on medical care, an increasing number of
Americans are suffering and dying needlessly from preventable chronic diseases and
cancer. One in 3 Americans—125 million Americans—have a chronic condition, and
minority and low-income populations are especially affected. Covering the uninsured and
modernizing America’s health care system are urgent priorities, but they are not enough.
I believe that we can and must do more to instill a culture of wellness in this nation. As
part of this effort, we also must commit to strengthening our public health system, both to
promote health and to prepare and respond to emerging threats that include bioterrorism
and pandemic flu.
I will work to give all Americans the opportunity to live in communities where risks from
physical and environmental hazards are low, health and quality of life are high priorities,
and public health systems are prepared for emergencies. This effort is contingent upon a
strong primary care workforce. Primary care providers and public health practitioners
have and will continue to lead efforts to protect and promote the nation’s health. Yet, the
numbers of both are dwindling, and the existing workforce is challenged by newer health
threats such as bioterrorism and avian flu, inadequate reimbursement, and limited access
to real-time information and technical support. I will expand funding for programs at
HRSA—including loan repayment, grants for training curricula, and infrastructure
support to improve working conditions— to ensure a strong workforce that can champion
prevention and public health activities. Chiropractors have made important and valuable
contributions with regards to expanding access to preventive services and strengthening
public health, and would be integral to the effectiveness of my efforts in this area.
National Health Care Reform, Question #2:
National health care reform legislation could encompass the establishment of a
federally defined package of core health care benefits that would serve as a base
standard for all health care plans. Do you believe such a standard for minimum
benefits, if established, should include chiropractic care provided by doctors
of chiropractic as a guaranteed benefit?
My health care plan both builds upon and improves our current insurance system, upon
which most Americans continue to rely, and leaves Medicare intact for older and disabled
Americans. My plan also addresses the large gaps in coverage that leave 45 million
Americans uninsured. Specifically, the it will: (1) establish a new public insurance plan,
available to Americans who neither qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP nor have access to
insurance through their employers, as well as to businesses that want to offer insurance to
their employees; (2) create a National Health Insurance Exchange to help Americans and
businesses that want to purchase private health insurance directly; (3) require all
employers to contribute towards health coverage for their employees or towards the cost
of the new public plan; (4) mandate all children have health care coverage; (5) expand
Medicaid and SCHIP to cover more of the least well-off among us; and (6) allow state
flexibility for state health reform plans.
My public insurance plan will include comprehensive coverage, including all essential
medical benefits such as mental health care, maternity care and preventive services. Any
benefit that is evidence-based or meets the current accepted standard of care would be
covered, and as such, many if not all chiropractic services provided by doctors of
chiropractic medicine should be included in the public benefit package.
Medicare, Question #1:
Current Medicare law discriminates against doctors of chiropractic (DCs), and the
beneficiaries who wish to receive their treatment, because DCs are permitted to
provide only a single covered benefit (manual manipulation of the spine)—even
though doctors of chiropractic are trained and licensed in all 50 states to provide a
range of other Medicare-covered services (physical exams, X-rays, other
diagnostic services, etc.). Current law allows a variety of other providers to be
reimbursed for these services but arbitrarily and unfairly limits the services a
doctor of chiropractic may provide. Would you support the enactment of
Medicare legislation allowing doctors of chiropractic to provide, and be
reimbursed for, any existing covered Medicare benefit (provided that the
services are within a doctor of chiropractic’s licensed scope-of-practice)?
I am committed to prioritizing focus on health care quality improvement to ensure that
patients receive and providers deliver the best possible care. To assist patients, my plan
supports disease management programs, coordination of care initiatives and full
transparency about provider quality and costs. Efforts to improve health care delivery by
providers will include comparative effectiveness research, tackling of health care
disparities, patient safety activities and aligning incentives for excellence. With regards
to this latter effort, I recognize that both public and private insurers tend to pay providers
based on the volume of services provided, rather than the quality or effectiveness of care.
I support reimbursement reform that will reward all providers for meeting certain
performance thresholds on outcome measures. As such, I will not discriminate against
any class of providers, but instead reward and reimburse those who deliver high quality
care and whose patients achieve good health outcomes.
Medicare, Question #2:
The traditional Medicare program, Part B, is a fee-for-service-based program that
allows beneficiaries direct access to the eligible Medicare providers of their
choice. However, beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare managed care plans, Type C
(also known as “Medicare Advantage Plans”), are limited to treatment from the
managed care plan’s providers and may only receive the services offered by their
particular plan. Congress intended Medicare managed care plans to offer services
no less comprehensive than those provided under Medicare Part B. However, in
practice, Medicare managed care plans routinely fail to provide beneficiaries with
access to doctors of chiropractic. Would you support the enactment of
Medicare legislation that would correct this deficiency and require Medicare
managed care plans to offer beneficiaries access—without unreasonable
restriction—to the services of doctors of chiropractic?
Although the Medicare managed care option has provided many seniors with greater
options, it has not achieved expected cost savings nor do many plans offer any additional,
meaningful benefits to enrollees. More recent investigation has highlighted a number of
problems with Medicare Advantage Plans including abusive marketing practices, variable
and sometimes harmful benefit design and excessive overpayment. As such, there is a
compelling need to conduct rigorous review and oversight of plan availability,
administration, benefit design, and financing. The study of comprehensiveness of benefit
design would help to clarify what additional standards and protections are needed for
seniors, such as guaranteed access to chiropractic care, which could be required as a
condition of participation for the insurers in the Medicare Advantage program.
Preservation of State Consumer-Protection Laws:
All 50 U.S. states have enacted laws intended to protect consumers accessing
health care services via insurance plans regulated at the state level. The portion of
the health care insurance marketplace regulated at the state level is sometimes
referred to as the health insurance “small market,” and the state-enacted consumer
protections that apply to this portion of the marketplace are often referred to as
“state mandates.” In the past, some in Congress have proposed the enactment of a
federal law(s) that would pre-empt, or otherwise abolish, the effectiveness of
these state-enacted consumer protections. ACA believes these protections serve a
valuable and useful purpose, and will continue to oppose their pre-emption until a
comprehensive set of federal protections is enacted to take their place. To what
extent do you agree or disagree with the ACA’s position on this matter?
(Please elaborate fully.)
I firmly believe that states should have maximal flexibility to implement state mandates
that meet the needs and preferences of its residents. I have opposed legislation, such as
Association Health Plan legislation, that would allow entities to circumvent state-enacted
consumer protections.
ERISA Reform and a Patients Bill of Rights:
Millions of Americans receiving their health insurance via plans organized as
federally regulated ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) plans are
deprived of consumer protections that exist at the state level and that are
applicable to state-regulated insurance plans. This is because plans organized
under the federal ERISA statute are provided with a pre-emption that allows them
to ignore state consumer-protection laws. This pre-emption continues even though
no consumer protections (comparable to typical state protections) have been
enacted at the federal level and made applicable to ERISA-organized plans. To
address this deficiency, and to help ensure that patients are not deprived of the
care they need, Congress may once again consider the enactment of a federal
“Patients Bill of Rights” that would apply to ERISA plans. ACA favors the
enactment of a comprehensive set of federal patient and provider protections.
Would you support the enactment of a comprehensive federal Patients Bill of
Rights, including (point-of-service) provisions that allow patients’ access to
the providers of their choice?
I firmly support the rights of states to determine and implement state-mandated benefits
and other protections that meet the needs and preferences of its residents. Accordingly, I
would support enactment of a federal Patients Bill of Rights to protect individual access
to providers and services in ERISA plans.
Antitrust Reform and Restraining Insurance-Company Power:
Current law allows a special exemption for the insurance and managed care
industries from certain provisions of federal antitrust law. This special treatment
gives the insurance industry a competitive advantage over other key participants
in the health care delivery system, including health care providers. ACA believes
such an advantage is anti-competitive in nature and harmful to the well-being of
providers and the patients they serve. It creates an uneven playing field in the
health care marketplace. This exemption allows a disproportionate level of market
power to accumulate in the hands of wealthy and highly profitable insurance
interests—to the detriment of providers and others. ACA supports enactment of
antitrust reform legislation that would restore balance to the marketplace by
allowing providers to collectively bargain with health insurance plans. Would
you support the enactment of such collective-bargaining legislation?
Yes.
Commissioning Doctors of Chiropractic in the Uniformed
Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service:
One remaining vestige of discrimination against the chiropractic profession at the
federal level is the ineligibility of doctors of chiropractic (DCs) to be
commissioned as officers in the Uniformed Corps of the U.S. Public Health
Service. No legitimate basis for this exclusion exists. In fact, doctors of
chiropractic are virtually the only provider group still excluded. The Corps is
comprised of a very broad range of providers; even doctors of veterinary medicine
may participate. Would you support legislation that would require the
commissioning of DCs as officers in the Uniformed Corps of the U.S. Public
Health Service?
The U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is comprised of approximately
6,000 public health professionals dedicated to delivering the nation’s public health
promotion and disease prevention programs and advancing public health science. Given
the critical role that doctors of chiropractic serve in each of these functions, I would
support commissioning of doctors of chiropractic as officers in the Uniformed Corps.
Integration of Chiropractic Care into the VA and DoD Health
Care Systems:
In recent years, the enactment by Congress of a series of laws has begun the
process of integrating chiropractic care into the health care systems of the
Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA). However, full
integration is yet to be achieved. The services of doctors of chiropractic (DCs) are
available at less than half of the major DoD and VA treatment facilities, and no
DCs are in theater treating our troops overseas. Additionally, in the DoD system,
chiropractic care is only available to active-duty military personnel, and it is not
available—as are other benefits—to survivors, retirees and dependents. In the VA
system, meanwhile, veterans living in rural areas rarely receive permission from
the VA to obtain chiropractic care from DCs available in their local areas. Would
you support the enactment of legislation that would lead to the full
integration of chiropractic care into both the DoD and VA health care
systems?
I recognize that neither the VA nor DOD has achieved full integration of the services of
doctors of chiropractic into their health systems despite clear direction from the
Congress. I will support careful examination into the policy and practical barriers that
restrict access to such services in order to inform the development of legislation that can
remedy this problem.

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