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31 May (6-8pm)-1 June (9.30am - 4.45pm) at Widder Hotel

Symposium ; ; Health Care's dilemma: Provision or Redistribution.

- 28 March 2012 (12.30-2.30pm) Radisson Blu EU Hotel, Rue d´Idalie, 35 – 1050).

Round table on "The challenges of chronic diseases in developing countries "
with Eric de Roodenbeke, Chief Executive of the International Hospital Federation.

Experts present at this meeting stressed the he need to encourage therapeutic innovation in order to find cures to chronic disease not only in developing countries but in modern societies in general .

Introduced by ; Dr Jorgo Chatzimarkarkis MEP, Dr Alphonse Crespo, Alexandra Wyke and Dr Meir Pugatch discussed arbitrary drug switching and argued that therapeutic decisions should be left to the responsibility of physcians and informed patients.

Jacques Chaoulli and other medical freedom fighters proposed strategies to parry threats on medical care in the US and beyond as well as concrete ways to opt out of third party controlled medical practice .

corporating the World TaxPayers’ Conference and the Free Market Roadshow and a seesion on "Campaigning for Heathcare Reform" including a panel featuring Alphonse Crespo. The Gala dinner was honored by the presence of Lady Margaret Thatcher.

Program included a session on Health Care Markets & Efficienc y chaired by Prof Thomas Saving (Texas A&M University) Panelists: Prof. James Henderson, Prof. Earl Grinols, Drs John Goodman, Nora Janjan & Alphonse Crespo
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Swiss social security rests on private initiative, employer mandates and government subsidy. Its original design allowed substantial room for individual responsibility and competition while limiting government to the tasks of safeguarding public health and guaranteeing basic provision for disability and age. (...) Compared to other systems, Swiss health care still rates well and some of its specificities do indeed deserve praise. ; However lessons can be learned from the circumstances that brought quality downgrades and restriction of choice into what was once an almost perfect health care system.
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(ISBN 978-88-6440-0818-1)
If Government Control is so Great, Why Are German Physicians so Unhappy? Alphonse Crespo, Philip Stevens
Comparative effectiveness research is a bureaucratic gimmick that strikes at physician professional autonomy. It has significantly hurt physician motivation in Germany . It will do the same wherever it is implemented. It also lays the ground for conflict between modern precision medicine - that moves physicians towards genetically guided personalized treatment - and centralized administrative assessments of “effectiveness” grounded on volatile statistical estimates that blur individual patient characteristics.
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What “Comparative Effectiveness Research” Means to You Jane M. Orient MD
A billion dollar parasite posing as "comparative effectiveness" is ready to infest US health care while allowing pseudo-researchers to thrive on tax-booties and giving true bureaucrats more tools for rationing.
Read the Article in AAPS online
Electronic Medical Records in the Age of Wikileaks Alieta Eck, MD
Can government keep your personal medical information private? ObamaCare is offering every physician $44,000 in taxpayer dollars to set up a new electronic medical record system: a promising source of MediLeaks.
Read the article in AAPS Online
h3>Dialogue with a Nobel Laureate ;

Experimental economics opens new pathways for patient choice and medical innovation.

in an exclusive dialogue with Dr. Alphonse Crespo .

followed by original English essay ( edited by the author ).
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Authored by Grace Marie Turner & other prominent experts, a must-read for Americans who want to know what ; their bungled health care reform really has to offer.

Bartley Madden 's brilliant Dual Tracking concept explained in his new book, opens a fast lane to therapeutic innovation that can prove crucial for individuals fighting life-threatening conditions. Dual tracking

therapeutic choice in the hands of doctors and patients.

Andreas Beivers, Alphonse Crespo, Alberto Mingardi, Günter Neubauer, Gabriele Pelissero e Valentin Petkantchin offer an update on health care reform in their respective countries.

cademic board is both an economist and a physician. He offers his unique expertise in this in-depth study on the scope and limits of health technology assessment as illustrated by UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

"Economics has little to do with money: it is above all about choices and their impact on society."

cademic Board member, in his latest book" Comprendre l'Economie " (Understanding Economics ) pubished by Les Belles-Lettres (Paris).

Michael Schlander

Professor Michael Schlander MD, PhD, MBA is a health economist at the University of Heidelberg and a professor of health care and innovation management at the University of Applied Economic Sciences, Ludwigshafen. He is the founder and scientific director of the Institute for Innovation and Valuation in Health Care (Inno Val HC) a not for profit institute based in Eschborn, Germany. ; Professor Schlander who is also a physician has written ground-breaking studies on the role and limits of current evaluation methodology in ; adminstrative assessments of medical innovation.
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Nicoleta Acatrinei

Graduate in economics and in theology, Nicoleta is currently preparing a PhD at the Swiss Federal Polytechnicum (ETH) in Zurich. She has ; spoken ; and written ; on topics related to ethics, economy and theology in Switzerland, China, Denmark and others. She is the author of " St Jean Chrysostome et l'Homo Oeconomicus" a scholarly work that explores the theological roots of market ethics. She has joined Medicine & Liberty in 2009 as our research fellow in charge of Ethics in Economics.
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Francis Thevoz

Dr Francis Thevoz is a Cardiovascular surgeon by training. Past-president of the Société Vaudoise de Médecine he is also a former councilor of the City of Lausanne where he served as Director of finances. He is currently a member of the finance commision of the city's parliament. Francis will notably participate in the development of ; MedLib's, Privamed-Pro project.
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Loredana D'Amato Sizonenko MD

Dr D'Amato Sizonenko is a geneticist specialized in rare diseases. She is presently Coordinator for Switzerland of Orphanet, an international database of information on rare diseases and orphan drugs for all publics, designed to contribute to the improvement of the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with rare diseases.
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Martín Krause

Martin Krause is the diirector of the Centro de Investigations de instituciones y Mercados de Argentina: professor of Economics at the University of Buenos Aires.
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Philip Stevens

Philip Stevens, Director of Policy at International Policy Network, London is the author of numerous health policy publications, including Fighting the diseases of Poverty (2007), Free trade for better health (2006) and The 10/90 Gap and the diseases of poverty (2004). He has also held research positions at the Adam Smith Institute and Reform in London and holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Durham University.
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Shahnaz Radjy

After graduating in Biology at UPenn in Philadelphia, Ms Shahnaz Radjy was active in humanitarian action in Bolivian hospitals, and founded an A-TIC internet venture in Bolivia. She has also ; organized events for the International Labor Organization in Geneva and now works for the Davos World Economic Forum.
Contact: [email protected]
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Bart Madden

Bartley Madden is an independent researcher who has developed "Dual Tracking": a fast lane for access to experimetal medicines, that also introduces an open database on new therapies. Bart Maddens concept is supported by Vernon Smith, Nobel ; prize in economics 2002 and by other reputed US economists. He has authored a monograph: "Dual Tracking, More Choices Better Health" edited by the Heartland Institute, Chicago.
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Stefan Metzeler

Graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéerale de Lausanne ( EPFL ). Information and technology specialist, owner at Amadeus IT solutions. Swiss representative fo the International Society for Individual Liberty ISIL .
Contact : [email protected]
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Pierre Lemieux

Professor of economics at the University of Québec in Outaouais. Author of "Le Droit de porter des armes"(1993), ; "Comprendre l'économie (2008) and other works such as " Public Health Insurance under a Non Benevolent State" . Editor of Liberty in Canada online tribune.
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Georges Lane

Georges Lane is a Professor of economics at the University of Paris-Dauphine where he teaches insurance economics.
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Philip Stevens

Philip Stevens, Director of Policy
Philip is the author of numerous health policy publications, including Fighting the diseases of Poverty (2007), Free trade for better health (2006) and The 10/90 Gap and the diseases of poverty (2004). His writings on health policy have appeared in a wide range of international newspapers. Philip has also held research positions at the Adam Smith Institute and Reform in London, and spent several years as a management consultant. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Durham University.
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Ernest Truffer

Swiss ENT surgeon and medical philosopher. One of the founding members of IATROS, a world organization of private and independent physicians. Writes regularly on medical ethics and other issues in various medical journals and in his blog
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Gabriel Calzada

Professor of economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid. Founder of Medicina en Libertad ; (MedLib.es) and of Madrid's ; Instituto Juan de Mariana
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Victoria Curzon Price

Professor of economics at the University of Geneva. President of Institut Constant de Rebecque, Lausanne. Member of Geneva Parlliament. Past president of the Mont Pelerin Society.
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Rudolf Mayer

A practicing Opthalmologist in Lausanne. Active in Swiss medical professional politics he is a staunch defender of medical autonomy. He is on the editorial board of the Swiss medical journal "Arzt un Patient" (Physician and Patient)
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Alphonse Crespo

Alphonse Crespo Swiss orthopedic surgeon. Author of Esculape Foudroyé (Les Belles Lettres 1991), ISBN 2-251-39008-1 and of numerous essays and articles such as Black Market Medicine an Ethical alternative to State Control , Outlawing Medicine or The End of Welfare and its effect on the Poor . Director of research at the Institut Constant de Rebecque , a Swiss classical liberal / libertarian think tank. He is the founder of Medicine and Liberty. Also conducts Med-Consilium a Swiss accident insurance consulting & assessment independent service.
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Serban Sichitiu

Reputed paediatrician practicing in Lausanne. He was one of the founders of Switzerland's Patient and Physician Union active in the defense of patient and phyisician rights and liberties.
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INTERVIEW featuring Bart Madden and Jim Doti president of Chapman University shows how dual tracking can save lives.
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PRESENTATION of preliminary results of multi-national physician autonomy study by Dr Alphonse Crespo at 2010 AAPS Conference in Salt Lake City
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From AAPS
Medical ; Freedom Report (Podcast)
A series of interviews with professionals determined to keep freedom alive in American medicine.
From SwiMSA
Swiss med students yearn to treat patients not paper
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Swiss medical students have identified the rationing and bureaucratic paperwork that loom behind DRG's (Diagnostic Related Groups). They prove it in 3 powerful video clips.
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From AAPS
Merryl Mathews at AAPS on defunding and repeal of Obamacare
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Events

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CMPI Geneva Round Table July 7, 2011
Geneva, Hotel Intercontinental - Wednesday 13th July, 12:45-2:30pm
"The challenges of chronic diseases in developing countries "
with Eric de Roodenbeke, Chief Executive of the International Hospital Federation
Buffet lunch will be included - attendance is free of charge
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Institut Turgot Health Care Seminars April 17, 2011
The Institut Turgot ; lauched a program of seminars on health care systems for the 21st Century. ;The kick-off ; meeting took place on April 12th in Paris.
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Discussions hinged around

Prof. Clayton Christensen's "

the Healthcare Crisis. " Discussions were conducted by Louis-Marie Bachelot président of "Alternative Libérale" and Henri Lepage (photo ) president ; of ; the Institut Turgot: "
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The Future of our Healthcare Systems March 7, 2011
Conference Rotary Club of Leman-Thonon
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Dr Alphonse Crespo - Prof. Victoria Curzon Price
The dynamics of medical progress vs. the challlenge of aging health care systems
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European Resource Bank Meeting in London September 19, 2010
The 7th European Resource Bank Meeting held in London Sep 8-10, 2010 enabled free market oriented institutes to exchange on a wide variety of issues that ranged from taxes to health care.
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Lord Forsyth and Arthur Laffer gave banquet speeches. Lady Margaret Thatcher ( here with Alphonse Crespo ) honoured the ERBM Gala dinner at Guild Hall.
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Central planning of Swiss Hospitals creates debate - Swiss doctors react to a costly and inadequate project in the Chablais area ( Read the articles in the April 2012 issue of CMV - in french ) ;
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Doctors demonstrated in Bern on March 31, 2011 to defend family-centred medicine in view of upcoming constitutional health care reform initiatives ( Read Geneva GP's call for action) ;
Restricted entry to medical schools (numerus clausus) and regulatory ban of new medical offices ; (caluse du besoin) has led to a severe shortage of physicians in Switzerland. Close to 40% of Swiss hospital doctors are not Swiss.
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Despite the referendum vote that refused a single payer system in 2007, Swiss Socialists announce that they will put the issue of a single public health insurance again on the table in 2010. Spiralling premiums that plague the current mandatory insurance system may lure more voters to move towards socialized health care. ; ; ; ; ; ; Read the newsfeed
PascalCouchepin, former president of Switzerland, outbids Thomas Zeltner: hecalls to close 200 Hospitals in order to control costs ;!!! Professor Leyvraz of CHUV, one of the major University Hospitals aptlypoints out that patients already have to face an acute shortage of beds. Highrates of severe nosocomial infections are directlylinked to overcrowded hospitals: a consequence of government drivenrationing policies. More than 10% of in-patients suffer contamination from a resistant germs while receiving treatment in major Swiss hospitals. Read the newsfeed
Switzerland has slashed 20% of its hospitals in the past 10 years to cut costs. Not good enough, claims Thomas Zeltner chief of Federal Public Health Office whowants to shut down 100 out of 320 remaining hospitals: He indicatesthat Swiss patients must be prepared to travel further for care . Read the Newsfeed
SwissNational Council votes (113 in favor, 56 against) to double patient co-payments for specialized care, in an attempt to control the soaring costsof mandatory health insurance. A proposed increase of the current 2 billion federal subsidiy designed to bring down health insurance premiums of lower income groups insurance was rejected (105 against, 64 in favor). Read the newsfeed
A Sante Suisse study indicates that four out of five Swiss worry about high health insurance premiums .A majority also questions madatory insurance and call for greaterflexibility in madates (i.e. a return to volontary health insurance!). Read the newsfeed

New study on Switzerland's growing shortage of nurses causes alarm. Cost-containmentpolicies in health care not only lead to overworked physician andnursing staffs, they also discourage entry into crucial healthprofessions. Read the newsfeed One out of three women with breast cancer does not get adequate treatment in Swiss hospitals judging by a study of 4749 cases conducted by Dr Beat Thurliman. Read the newsfeed Patients contaminated by swine flu in major Swiss public hospitals. Overworked doctors & understaffed medical teams of major University Hospitals in the spotlight. Read the newsfeed Mandatory health insurance premium hikes of up to 27% are predicted for 2010. Swiss citizens who have opted for high deductible plans likely to be the hardest hit ; Read the newsfeed Martine BRUNCHWIG-GRAF liberal candidate to Couchepin's federal seat voices concerns about drastic rationing of health care for senior citizens in Switzerland Read the newsfeed Swiss health minister quits

- Couchepin: I give up! - Physicians demonstrators: Not us!

By Barrigue: Source SVM
Federal minister Pascal Couchepin pushed for intrusive regulation of medical activity. News of his resignation has led medical associations to call for a stop of doctor administrative strikes. A Pyrrhic victory for Swiss doctors &patients: Couchepin's demise has notstopped government from ordering drastic cuts in lab-test reimbursementfees (that spell the end of GP's office labs) and other disputable regulatory measures. SwissFederal Council hands parliament a catalogue of urgent changes infederal health insurance laws, exclusively aimed at cost-containment.Added taxes on doctors visits and a push to favor "telephone medicine"(at the expense of clinical examination) amongst the measures proposed. READ Federal Council's message to Parliament Stickers ready for Swiss doctor's imminent adminstrative strikes
Bern witnesses a national demonstration of GP's .
Over 2000 doctors demonstrate in Lausanne & Geneva to protest against federal cost-containmentmeasures that threaten medical practice.
Source: SVM

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How Greek mythology helps us understand crisis in modern health care.

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AMA Votes against Patients and Physicians

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