A Simple Way to Improve Medicare
Medicare, the government’s health plan for seniors, has observed a ritual that’s as regular and anticipated as the presidential pardon of a Thanksgiving turkey. It’s called the “Doc Fix” and it’s been...
View ArticleWhy Medicaid Is No Longer a Voluntary Program
It is widely believed that Medicaid is a voluntary program. While this may have once been true, it is no longer the case. Today, states confront the dilemma of having to choose between joining Medicaid...
View ArticleThe Coming Medical Ethics Crisis
For the past several years, the medical profession has been undergoing a disturbing transformation. The process was begun by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in an effort to control...
View ArticleCost Shifting Does Not Justify Obamacare
A major justification by President Obama for the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, which requires everyone to buy health insurance, is that every time an uninsured patient receives care in...
View ArticleThe Ballot Box Is Not the Only Way to Stop Obamacare
In the wake of the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision holding the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) constitutional as a tax, the conventional wisdom is that the only way to save America from the...
View ArticleHealth Insurance an Endangered Species
Health insurance will soon be extinct. Unlike other members of the species — property and casualty insurance, life insurance, liability insurance, auto insurance — political predators have been...
View ArticleThe Depressing Future of American Health Care
In 1997, Jacques Chaouilli, MD, a family physician in Montreal, Quebec, decided he could no longer tolerate seeing his patients suffer—sometimes die—lingering on waiting lists for treatment and/or...
View ArticleHow Government Killed the Medical Profession
I am a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. And I am fed up. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from CT scans...
View ArticleDenigrating Medicine: ObamaCare Turns Physicians into Assembly Line Workers
I am a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. I have watched my profession slowly evolve into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers and clerks.At first, the decline...
View ArticleThe Man Who Was Treated for $17,000 Less
Every so often I have an extraordinary and surprising experience with a patient—the kind that makes us both say, “Wow, we’ve learned something from this.” One such moment occurred recently.A gentleman...
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