Happy New Year!!!

With best wishes to all of you for a happy and healthy 2006. I hope that this year will bring about badly needed changes to medicine - tort reform, health care specialty courts, reasonable reimbursement. I'm not holding my breath on the last item though. With Congress failing to act on the budget reconciliation bill, and preservation of 2005 Medicare reimbursement rates tied into the firestorm over Medicaid funding, it's not looking good for the hometeam.