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- Where and What are We? Re-Posting A Quora Piece, as the Time is RIght 15 August, 2020
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From the New York Times: Please Don’t Bleed on Me While I Pick Your Pocket
Powered by Qumana Gentle Readers – There should be some sympathy for our hospitals, especially safety-net institutions, the ones that provide care to our poorest and sickest. But this article, admirably written by Ms. Silver-Greenberg, points out the depths to … Continue reading
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From the New York Times: What Does Insurance Company Administrative Cost Look Like, and Do, to Our Citizens ?
Gentle Readers – Ms. Bernstein has documented – yet again, because we know and have known this – the consequences of a for-profit health system. The roughly 30% that the private insurers consume as their administrative cost makes health care … Continue reading
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Ethinicity, Race, Guns, and Death – Our Children
Gentle readers – As a Floridian, when the “Stand your ground” legislation was passed some years ago, I cringed to think of what would happen at the junction of racism, bad judgement, and too-easy-access to handguns. It appears that, in … Continue reading
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Playing Games with the Health of Women
Let’s play a game. In this game, I have figured out a way to prevent something like 400,000 abortions per year. In this game, you would assume, wouldn’t you, that having worked out a way to eliminate the need for … Continue reading
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Note from Physicians to Mr. Santorum: You are Wrong on Prenatal Tests
Gentle Readers – This note was published in the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News by five Maternal – Fetal Medicine colleagues from Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton (Ohio) as a way to ensure that the mis-statements and outright lies streaming from … Continue reading
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Of Women, Health, and Death: This is Where the Anti-Choice Movement Leaves Us
Years ago, sometime around 1995, I sat with a colleague – now dead – who, over the years, had become a dear friend as well as a co-worker. A man who was raised a Catholic, joined the US Air Force, … Continue reading
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A Statement from Doctors for America
Gentle Readers – The statement following, which I am privileged to sign, is from an organization that attempts to make our lives a bit better every day. I am pleased to place this into my blog. AJ Layon ======================================================= A … Continue reading
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How Can we Decrease Costs and Improve Quality in Medicine?
Ezekiel Emanuel, oncologist, former White House advisor, and Vice-Provost and Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, published an opinion piece last week in the New York Times (Less Than $ 26 Billion ? Don’t … Continue reading
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Does the Ryan Reform REALLY Threaten to Kill Medicare [as we know it] ?
There has been a great deal of commentary from both the Democrats and the Republicans / Tea Partiers related to Congressman Ryan’s proposals to trim our country’s deficits. While all of of interest, the Medicare voucher program is to me the … Continue reading
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From Politico.com and The Washington Post – Glenn Thrush and Ezra Klein on Rank Hypocrisy
Gentle Readers – I think Ezra Klein is in error here; it IS hypocritical to oppose health care for the working poor while at the same time complaining that there is no government insurance option to cover the gap. I … Continue reading
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