Health Care: A new survey shows that ObamaCare is less popular with the uninsured than with the public. How is this even possible? The January Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows that just 24% of the uninsured approve of ObamaCare. That’s down from 40% the month before the reform officially launched in October, and […]

Where there’s smoke . . . The Economist | From the print edition | Jan 11th 2014 It was the report that showed, without a whiff of doubt, that cigarettes kill. On January 11th 1964—a Saturday, so to not roil the stockmarket—Surgeon-General Luther Terry released a 387-page document entitled “Smoking and Health”. Ten scientists (all […]

A patient told my office she couldn’t afford to see me since she didn’t have health insurance. She had applied for ObamaCare and paid the first months premium of $600 but was unable to make the next payment. Therefore, she would be unable to keep her six-month follow up appointment. What she didn’t comprehend was […]

There is a prevailing opinion that the more test I can convince my doctor to order, the better my health care outlook. Please read Dr. Goodman’s report above. He points out that you could obtain your entire health care benefits in diagnostic studies and not even obtain a single helpful treatment. This you could use […]

Most of the Benefits of a Minimum Wage Increase Would Not Go to Poor Households by David R. Henderson | March 12, 2014 Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University National Center for Policy Analysis Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee United States Senate I welcome the opportunity to share my views and research findings on proposals […]

In its quest to become the epitome of scientific discipline, the medical profession has lost sight of its original goal—that is, to relieve suffering. Today, with our obsession with the “scientific method,” we have deviated far from that goal. That is why the medical elite have coined the term “evidence-based medicine,” to emphasize that the […]

Dr. Steven Landers, MPH wrote: Dear Del, Healthcare reform is shifting the industry away from a fee-for-service model to paying for outcomes through value-based purchasing metrics as well as ACOs, risk-sharing models, shared savings programs, and bundled payments. This calls for a total overhaul in the structure of your business, and as a fellow business […]

Medicaid surge triggers cost concerns for states By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press   May 27, 2014 WASHINGTON — From California to Rhode Island, states are confronting new concerns that their Medicaid costs will rise as a result of the federal health care law. That’s likely to revive the debate about how federal decisions can saddle […]

Pharmacies programs are now making direct contact with our patients causing confusion and questions their personal physician’s (frequently referred to with the derogatory PCP designation) competence. Although these letters, which are shared with the patients, do state that they obviously do not have the entire patient’s record, and the “PCP” is in a better position […]

We’ve been in the practice of pulmonary medicine for the last 45 years. We’ve seen a large number of patients in respiratory failure. Hospitalization in an intensive or respiratory care unit may be required by some if the patient has obvious difficulty in moving air into and out of his lungs as manifested by a […]