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Well, have you? If you do, you're almost guaranteed to find a profile for your practice on sites like HealthGrades.com or RateMDs.com. On some sites, like RateMDs.com, your patients are free to leave anonymous comments - I looked up a doctor I know and read some helpful comments like "doctor's nurse is brain dead, staff is rude, surly and incompetent." How should you respond?

The Medicare Board of Trustees' financial report for 2009 is out and it doesn't look good.

Labor unions and the healthcare industry are apparently looking to jump in the driver's seat to move major healthcare reform forward in 2009. News broke Sunday night that leaders in the healthcare industry say they'll support the Obama administration's goal of slashing $2 trillion dollars in spending reductions over the next decade. You can read more about it here, here and here.

Here's a letter (click here) sent from six healthcare and union groups to President Obama offering support for the administration's goal of $2 trillion in healthcare savings over 10 years. In it you'll find this outline stating how they'll reform healthcare:

Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) released a report detailing options to expand health insurance to those without it. You can read the report here.

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