The prerogative to pander in healthcare reform

Health policy re-engineering in America is possible, but only if the drive to improve trumps the prerogative to get votes. Published 9:37 a.m. May 16, 2012 - Comments

Doctors' groups find comfort in numbers and organization against Obamacare

White paper principles formulated for physicians to carry forward in the fight to preserve the doctor-patient relationship in America Published 12:41 p.m. May 11, 2012 - Comments

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Health reform’s political tryst: love and narcissism inside the beltway

Politics, like personal relationships, is built on a foundation of trust and honesty, and requires a firm connection to reality to be successful and sustainable. Published 4:54 p.m. May 4, 2012 - Comments

Health reform: The paradox of Barack Obama

How did the President fall so short on the stimulus plan and in his remake of ‘Hillary-Care’, now known as Obamacare? Published 2:02 p.m. April 18, 2012 - Comments

Supreme musings on Obamacare

The Supreme Court begins deliberations on Obama’s healthcare reform this week. Unfortunately, the real truth on the healthcare reform law is often buried beneath catchy videos and 15-second sound bites at mainstream and cable media outlets. Published 11:17 a.m. March 25, 2012 - Comments

President Obama's misdiagnoses of healthcare reform crisis

Three diagnoses of the American medical system in desperate need of rational, logical treatment solutions. Published 11:11 a.m. March 19, 2012 - Comments

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Samuel Shem's House of God 2012: Healthcare failures hiding behind paper

When Samuel Shem published his famous book The House of God four decades ago, no one would have thought that American medicine could fall so far from its elevated position in society. Published 11:38 a.m. March 14, 2012 - Comments

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Free market medicine on life support – America’s flirtation with greatness at an end?

Some in politics and the media might wonder why the American medical establishment might be so ‘up in arms’ about the run-up and passage of Obamacare. Published 1:45 p.m. March 5, 2012 - Comments

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Drug stores lack transparency; evidence-based medicine in doubt under Obamacare

In the battle to prop up the ‘Affordable Care Act’, some may want you to believe that our doctors of tomorrow will have the same research and development we enjoy today. Published 1:23 a.m. February 19, 2012 - Comments

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The Scheme to Change Your Doctor's Prescription--A Glimpse of Obamacare or Just Unethical Profiteering?

Documents from the pharmacy industry reveal perverse incentives to change patient prescriptions to therapeutically similar, but altogether different, medicines. Who is really really benefiting (and profiting) from this arrangement? Published 9:30 p.m. February 14, 2012 - Comments