Eli Lilly’s drug, Cymbalta, was approved for lower back pain by an FDA scientific advsory panel. This is a follow up article to the dividend growth article published earlier today at http://physicianentrepreneur.com/?p=834

As predicted last summer in MDinfoNews.com, the Obamacare proposals we’ve seen so far do not solve the systemic slide of the Medicare system into a financial black hole, and instead create a new financial puzzle that Congress is attempting to solve with an array of taxes, charges, and burdens on providers that amount to a shell game it’s using in an attempt to convince Joe Average that someone else is footing the bill. Let’s look at recent events, how things are likely to unfold, and what you can do about it. See PhysicianEntrepreneur.com/?p=662 for details.

Sometimes Google isn’t enough to find what you are looking for on the Internet. Here’s a free tool you can add as a plugin to your web browser to return results from Google, and add results from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon, and eBay. See the full article at PhysicianEntrepreneur.com for details, including a demo video and how to download the plugin.

Medicare physician reimbursement rates were scheduled to drop by 21.2 percent on 1/1/2010. Deja Vu – Congress has extended 2009 reimbursement rates through 2/28/2010. If you think this is a lot like what happened at the beginning of 2009, you’d be right. What comes next? See the full article for details:

It’s hard to view most web sites on your phone (other than PhysicianEntrepreneur.com and MDinfoNews.com !), but Google has made some improvements on its news site to make it easier to view google news — see the full article at PhysicianEntrepreneur.com for details.

Gratitude makes us more worthy of the many blessings we receive, and Thanksgiving is an apt time to remember and be thankful for all the good things, great and small, that enrich our lives. In that spirit, I thank you, our readers, for your loyalty and participation in our community. I’m also going to give you a little peek ahead into what’s coming in the next few weeks and months — see the full story at PhysicianEntrepreneur.com for details.

As Congress considers the various Obamacare proposals, Massachusetts health care program that began in 2006 is heralded as the magic potion that merely needs to be applied to the rest of our country to cure all its healthcare ills. Let’s take a closer look at the Massachusetts plan, some its features, and a hard look at some of its realities. See the full article at PhysicianEntrepreneur.com for details.

President Obama spoke for an hour on prime time TV about health care reform in an attempt to garner support from the right wing, assuage fears of the 84% of the public who already have some form of public or private healthcare coverage, and to deny some of the accusations made by his detractors. On the other hand, remember that Congress has been the quarterback in this game and Obama has been more of a cheerleader and goal-setter who has left the heavy lifting and details to others. Let’s take a closer look at some of the things that were said, as well as the details that were left out. See the full article at PhysicianEntrepreneur.com for details.

We’ve heard so much talk about how healthcare reform is going to make healthcare more affordable, but with all this time for the President and Congress to come up with great ideas, where are the great ideas? Let’s take a look at the current ideas put forth by the President and the House and Senate committees writing healthcare reform bills. See the full article at PhysicianEntrepreneur.com for details.

Here is the full text of President Obama’s healthcare address to a joint session of Congress on 9/9/09, as released by the White House. I’m publishing it here to allow you all our readers to have a chance to read the actual speech rather than settle for the interpretations offered by the talking heads on the TV news. See the full article at physicianentrepreneur.com