Direct Primary Care Summit Albert L. Fisher, M.D. When I attended the Direct Primary Care Summit in Indianapolis, Indiana, a vendor told me that HMOs are dead. Patients now have high deductibles, high copays, and very costly insurance. They are having difficulty getting necessary care despite their high premiums.

Dr. Rosen:      The massive anger of the radical left liberals against President Donald Trump is difficult to comprehend. Is there a logical reason for this vitriol? Dr. Edwards:  They just can’t believe that Donald Trump won the 2016 election. There must be something terribly wrong that allowed that to happen. Dr. Milton:      Now that we […]

The Radical Fringe on the Left cannot accept the incontrovertible fact that President Trump won the presidential elections in 2016. They can’t accept the findings of the two volume Mueller record of the inquiry; the numerous subpoenas that were served; the $millions spent on this inquiry; or that he is still our president sitting in […]

Last month we had a medical grand rounds on Transgenderism. The speaker portrayed a very positive and relatively innocuous transformation. When asked the cost of this transformation, “he” simply stated that it was the usual cost of the require procedures. The required procedures for transgender conversion for a female would entail the following:

THE ROAD TO WELFARE https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/american-exceptionalism-and-the-entitlement-state American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State (Part III continued from April, May) Nicholas Eberstadt Winter 2015 Scarcely less revolutionary has been the remolding of daily life for ordinary Americans under the shadow of the entitlement state. Over the half-century between 1963 and 2013, entitlement transfers were the fastest growing source […]

Economic stress and demographic change are weakening a symbiotic relationship OF LATE THE world’s older democracies have begun to look more vulnerable than venerable. America seems destined for a constitutional showdown between the executive and the legislature. Brexit has mired Britain in a constitutional morass of its own. Such troubles could be mistaken for a […]

D-Day: Veterans and the world leaders mark the 75th anniversary             The Battle of Normandy: June 6, 1944 to August 1944,             The French maintain the D means “disembarkation,” still others say “debarkation,” and the more poetic insist D-Day is short for “day of decision.” When someone wrote to General Eisenhower in 1964 asking for […]

Richard W. Johnson writes in the WSJ Mon April 22, 2019: The Case Against Retirement. Most people look forward to retirement, a reward for decades of hard work. Many people dream of leaving the office as soon as they can. But the evidence suggests a lot of downsides. It may be time to rethink those […]

The clash between physicians and the press in the U.S. is older than the republic itself. The first recorded debate goes back to the Boston smallpox outbreak of 1721. Newspapers, including Benjamin Franklin’s The Courant, launched a crusade against Dr. Zabdiel Boylston’s practice of immunization.

The Galen Institute, Grace-Marie Turner President, galen.org founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. Grace-Marie has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform to transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients.  She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, […]