Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Kelly Victory, M.D. is a board certified trauma specialist. She currently runs a healthcare consulting practice, and advises a number of both public and private companies. Dr. Victory is on the Leadership Counsel at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the Board of Directors of the Steamboat Institute, and is actively involved in the healthcare reform debate in Washington.
Latest Policy Articles
Confessions of a Serial Profiler – Avoiding "Security Theater"
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
When physicians fail to profile, identify and act on lesions that are well known to be risks for cancer, it’s called “malpractice”. What shall we call it when our government does the same?
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
When physicians fail to profile, identify and act on lesions that are well known to be risks for cancer, it’s called “malpractice”. What shall we call it when our government does the same?
Defunding ObamaCare: It's Time to Walk the Walk
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Make no mistake: ObamaCare is the GOP's Rubicon. If we allow the mother lode of new entitlements dictated by ObamaCare to go into effect, there will be no retrenching.
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Make no mistake: ObamaCare is the GOP's Rubicon. If we allow the mother lode of new entitlements dictated by ObamaCare to go into effect, there will be no retrenching.
Health Insurance Exchanges: Welcome to the Bread Line
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Most people are at least vaguely aware that the core component of ObamaCare is the "individual mandate"...What is less understood, however, is the vehicle by which this mandate is proposed to occur – namely, the state "healthcare insurance exchanges."
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Most people are at least vaguely aware that the core component of ObamaCare is the "individual mandate"...What is less understood, however, is the vehicle by which this mandate is proposed to occur – namely, the state "healthcare insurance exchanges."
ObamaCare 2013: Rich Tax, Poor Tax, High Tax, More Tax
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
With the November election debacle behind us, inquiring minds want to know what to expect from ObamaCare in 2013. The answer is simple and resounding: "Taxes." Lots of them.
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
With the November election debacle behind us, inquiring minds want to know what to expect from ObamaCare in 2013. The answer is simple and resounding: "Taxes." Lots of them.
Marxism: Redefining the Cliff
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Defying common sense, liberals don’t seem to care how entitlement programs are run or what results they actually deliver. So, the question at hand is why? Why are President Obama and leading Democrats hell-bent on protecting entitlements?
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Defying common sense, liberals don’t seem to care how entitlement programs are run or what results they actually deliver. So, the question at hand is why? Why are President Obama and leading Democrats hell-bent on protecting entitlements?
Post-ObamaCare: The Brave New World
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
After a year or so of denials for hip replacements, annual mammograms, pap smears, dialysis and cataract surgery, many Americans will look to alternative options for care; the treatment and services they obtain may not be legal, but they will be available. In the words of Winston Churchill, "If you destroy a free market, you create a black market."
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
After a year or so of denials for hip replacements, annual mammograms, pap smears, dialysis and cataract surgery, many Americans will look to alternative options for care; the treatment and services they obtain may not be legal, but they will be available. In the words of Winston Churchill, "If you destroy a free market, you create a black market."
Election 2012: As Healthcare Goes, So Goes the Nation
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
A physician should never be put in a position to choose between doing what is best for a patient and what has been mandated by the government. I took an oath to, first and foremost, "do no harm;" ObamaCare will force me and others in my profession to violate that crucial first principle of medicine.
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
A physician should never be put in a position to choose between doing what is best for a patient and what has been mandated by the government. I took an oath to, first and foremost, "do no harm;" ObamaCare will force me and others in my profession to violate that crucial first principle of medicine.
Fighting for Our Lives: The Ten Worst Things About ObamaCare
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Americans are just beginning to understand the misadventure that is ObamaCare. It is time that we accept Chief Justice Roberts’ challenge to protect ourselves from the consequences of our political choices. We must educate others on the facts about ObamaCare and the egregious assault it will levy on our personal liberties and healthcare as we know it. We must vote for the candidate who has vowed to repeal this abomination. Fight as if your life depends on it, because it does.
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Americans are just beginning to understand the misadventure that is ObamaCare. It is time that we accept Chief Justice Roberts’ challenge to protect ourselves from the consequences of our political choices. We must educate others on the facts about ObamaCare and the egregious assault it will levy on our personal liberties and healthcare as we know it. We must vote for the candidate who has vowed to repeal this abomination. Fight as if your life depends on it, because it does.
Entitlement Programs - Government Sanctioned Bondage
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Much has been written about the crippling cost of burgeoning entitlement programs… These programs are clearly at the heart of our current financial crisis. But what of their unspoken costs; the insidious undermining of ingenuity, motivation, tenacity and drive –the very qualities that made America great?
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Much has been written about the crippling cost of burgeoning entitlement programs… These programs are clearly at the heart of our current financial crisis. But what of their unspoken costs; the insidious undermining of ingenuity, motivation, tenacity and drive –the very qualities that made America great?
Of Medicaid, State Budgets and Government Coercion
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
On June 28, 2012, the Affordable Care Act (aka: ObamaCare) received a highly controversial stay of execution from the Supreme Court; in a 5:4 decision, the Justices ruled that the individual mandate does not represent a constitutional over-reach.
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
On June 28, 2012, the Affordable Care Act (aka: ObamaCare) received a highly controversial stay of execution from the Supreme Court; in a 5:4 decision, the Justices ruled that the individual mandate does not represent a constitutional over-reach.
Fraud Consumes Billions of Medicare-Medicaid Budgets
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Legend has it that when asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton replied, "Because that's where the money is." If the original Slick Willie were still around and in business today, he'd likely be going after some bloated federal government program instead of banks. He'd find it far more lucrative, and by all appearances thieves almost never get caught. A brief examination of Medicare and Medicaid proves the point.
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
Legend has it that when asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton replied, "Because that's where the money is." If the original Slick Willie were still around and in business today, he'd likely be going after some bloated federal government program instead of banks. He'd find it far more lucrative, and by all appearances thieves almost never get caught. A brief examination of Medicare and Medicaid proves the point.
More Blowback from Healthcare Reform: The Growing Physician Shortage
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
America was already facing a significant shortage of physicians prior to the passage of the reform bill. Adding more than 30 million newly insured people into the system will make the deficit far worse.
By Kelly Victory, M.D., Contributing Editor
America was already facing a significant shortage of physicians prior to the passage of the reform bill. Adding more than 30 million newly insured people into the system will make the deficit far worse.
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