Tag Archives: Health Care Reform

Health Care in the Presidential Race: A Guide for the Perplexed

Gentle Reader: Professor D’Amico and I wrote this recently and tried to make it an Op-Ed piece in a couple of our national newspapers; no success.  So I present it to you here. The issues involved in the health care … Continue reading

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From Time Magazine: The Long Goodbye

Gentle Reader: Mr. Klein has done us a service in writing this piece.  It could just as well be titled: The Way We Die. It is somehow ironic that Mr. Klein was interviewing Iowa’s Senator Grassley when he received the … Continue reading

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From The New Yorker: Restaurant Chains Have Managed to Combine Quality Control, Cost Control, and Innovation. Can Health Care?

Gentle Reader – Doctor Gawande’s piece from the New Yorker, below, details some interesting facts relted to the day-to-day operations of a restaurant called the Cheesecake Factory. He asks if there are things we in medicine can learn from this … Continue reading

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From: The New York Times: What Can Mississippi Learn From Iran ?

Gentle Reader: Below is a piece from the NYT.  A superb piece, wonderfully written, detailing at least two things: 1. We have  great deal to learn from others as we try to improve our health care system.  If we can … Continue reading

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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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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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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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