What the Death of American Medical News Says About the Future of American...
By Michael L. Millenson If you wanted to know what doctors thought about money and medical practice, including plumber envy, you’d read American Medical News(AMN). That’s the biweekly newspaper the...
View ArticleThe Most Effective Obamacare Delay is Defunding
By Chris Jacobs There is nothing controversial about stopping Obamacare. A majority of Americans dislike the law and want it repealed. Obamacare is disastrous for individuals, businesses, and doctors...
View ArticleESCAPE FIRE: Changing Medical Education
Since its Sundance premiere in 2012, ESCAPE FIRE has screened for national leaders, medical experts, thousands of students, and the general public. The film opened in theatres last October, and had its...
View ArticleHealthcareDIY: An Old Idea Made New
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn My wisest and longest-time friend in health care, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn has a new project, new research and a new website called HealthcareDIY out today. I encourage all of you to...
View ArticleThe Presidential Healthcare Curse – Why Do They Even Try?
By DAVID BLUMENTHAL, MD Until now, virtually every president who has dabbled with comprehensive health reform has failed spectacularly, often at huge political cost. Think of Harry Truman’s lonely...
View ArticleHalbig corpus interruptus
By Matthew Holt In more stunning proof that America’s 18th century style governing process just doesn’t work, a subset of a regional Federal court ruled against part of Obamacare. The Halbig ruling is...
View ArticleA Real (Living, Breathing) Health Care Reform Plan: Drop MACRA
By STEVEN SOUMERAI Dear Washington, Congratulations! You have listened to the AMA and practicing physicians and made it a little easier to comply (at first) with the Medicare Quality Payment Program,...
View ArticleHow a Value Focus Could Change Health Care
By BRIAN KLEPPER, PhD How will the drive to health care value affect health care’s structure? We tend to assume that the health care structure we’re become accustomed to is the one we’ll always have,...
View ArticleEveryone Is Having the Wrong Healthcare Debate
By STEVEN MERAHN, MD In 1807, in an effort to spite the British and French for shipping interference (and forced recruitment of American citizens into military service), the United States Congress...
View ArticleTHCB Gang, Episode 11
Episode 11 of “The THCB Gang” was live-streamed on Thursday, May 27th and you can see it again below Joining me were three regulars, patient safety expert Michael Millenson (MLMillenson), writer Kim...
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