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An Unhealthy Debate Around Wellness
By JAAN SIDOROV There’s an adage that, except for their tax revenue, American business is something the left loves to hate. And who can blame them, what with executive compensation, minimum wage and...
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Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Health Care Debate
While concepts for health care reform volley back and forth in Washington, D.C., and around the nation, Johns Hopkins has quietly but meaningfully injected itself into the debate. Johns Hopkins...
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How Health Care Changed While You Were Watching the Election
By Dan Diamond After a seemingly endless presidential campaign, we’re just days away from the Nov. 6 election. And to be sure, health care issues remain at the forefront. Both Barack Obama and Mitt...
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Did Massachusetts Health Care Reform Hurt Access To Care For the Previously...
By Ashish Jha, MD In 2006, Governor Mitt Romney signed Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006 entitled “An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care.” It has been described by many...
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Is the Suspension of the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan a Preview of...
By Matthew Wayt Following the Obama administration’s announcement about the suspension of enrollment in a high-risk health insurance program known as the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, a flurry...
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How to Find a Neurosurgeon On Craigslist
By COLIN SON, MD An uninsured Seattle man has put out an ad offering to trade his 2006 Mustang GT for brain surgery. He provides an image from a MRI of his brain even. The poster doesn’t describe what...
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An Anesthesiologist Thinks Out Loud
By Shirie Leng, MD Anyone who has read my work knows that articles like the one written in the New York Times on Sunday by Elisabeth Rosenthal will immediately get a response out of me. If you haven’t...
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What If Physicians Worked For Free?
By Country Doctor Today I am going to write about how the US could save up to 10% on its healthcare bill. The US spends more on health care than any other nation, $8,500 per person per year. Multiply...
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What Do Patients Really Think? A Report From the Third Annual Health Privacy...
By Andy Oram Health reform activists and privacy mavens have been at loggerheads for years. Those touting health reform complain that an oversensitivity to privacy risks would hold back progress in...
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The Wellness Game: The Employer As the New Parent
By Vik Khanna Eat your vegetables. Turn off the TV. Go outside and play. Go to bed on time. These four imperatives were once amongst the core messages delivered to children by their parents and...
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What You Need to Know About Obamacare Scams
By Sean Boulger The FTC has found that healthcare fraud has been on the rise lately, and will likely continue to increase until October. Let’s talk about how to spot the scams and avoid any problems...
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My Family’s Obamacare
By Micah Weinberg How will the Affordable Care Act affect my family and me? The answer, like the law itself, is complicated. There will be as many stories about health reform as there are families. But...
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Beyond the Affordable Care Act: A Framework for Getting Health Care Reform Right
By Martin Gaynor The following was drafted quite a few months ago, and had its genesis in a list of recommendations for improving the health care system that David Dranove solicited from a number of...
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The 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...
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What Health Reform Can Learn from the Environmental Movement
By Michelle Snyder Over past few years, we’ve seen numerous articles about impact of the environment changes on the health of our population. They range from increased rates and severity of...
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The Great American Health Care Divide
By Brad DeLong In 1883, the authoritarian imperial government of Prince Otto von Bismarck – who famously declared, “It is not by speeches and majority votes that the great issues of our time will be...
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Enabling the Health Care Locavore
By Adrian Gropper, MD Three juicy lemons came through my inbox this week. The NY Times published an expose of why hip replacement surgery costs 5-10 times as much in the US as in Belgium even though...
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Talmudic-Like Studies of Republican Health Reform Ideas
By Uwe Reinhardt After doing Talmudic-like studies of the doctrines on health reform promulgated by Republican health-policy makers and the conservative economists who inspired them during the past two...
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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...
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ESCAPE 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...
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