ANNALS of HEALTH CARE: OVERKILL An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially What can we do about it? By ATUL GAWANDE, MD | The New Yorker Magazine | June 11, 2015 It was lunchtime before my afternoon surgery clinic, which meant that I was at my desk, eating a ham-and-cheese […]

At the end of your life, your family will miss you more if you die from smoking than from drinking. Cigarettes merely rot your lungs; alcohol rots your soul. By the time you die from too much booze, your family can’t wait for you to go. It takes a long time for a stiff to […]

NCPA | Policy Reports | Health | No. 372  Tuesday, September 22, 2015 by Devon M. Herrick Executive Summary The long-term solvency of Medicare is the most serious domestic policy problem this country faces in the 21st century. Despite the rosy forecasts from politicians, the Medicare Trustees confirm that health care spending will consume an increasing proportion of the economy. […]

Car-Care Crisis? September 16, 2015 The U.S. healthcare’s third-party payer system has created a national crisis where we are spending more than ever while failing to ensure access for our citizens. The health insurance system abets this crisis by adding administrative costs, regulatory compliance burdens, and bureaucratic interference. Many consumers are caught unwittingly in this […]

April 15th, tax day! (But not this year; this year, it’s Emancipation Day, which is worth observing if anything is.) And probably not coincidentally, the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s widely-loved and loathed novel “Atlas Shrugged” opens at theatres nationwide. So what could be more appropriate and entertainingly polarising than a discussion of Ayn Rand’s […]

LegalCare: It is Time to Lower Legal Costs and Ensure Affordable, Accessible Legal Coverage for All by Matthew S. Rice, M. D., Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS According to the American Bar Association, thousands of innocent working Americans are wrongfully convicted of crimes every year, in part due to negligent or poorly trained […]

All Medicare providers (e.g. physicians, NPs, PAs, etc.) are eligible to earn a 1 percent incentive on their total Medicare Part B allowed charges by electronically prescribing a total of 25 times from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2011 and having at least 10 percent of their total Medicare Part B charges made up of […]

A frequent occurrence in front line medicine as practice by family physicians, internists and emergency room physicians is the patient’s demands for laboratory proof of almost any diagnosis, whether it’s peptic disease or a fractured rib. Or even a sprained ankle. Articles have been written on the examination of the ankle, taking into account the […]

Mitt Romney is in The Wrong Political Party; Maybe Even the Wrong Country. OBAMACARE = ROMNEYCARE: Your signature government-run health care experiment in Massachusetts was a dismal failure. Nonetheless, in May 2009, you cited it as one of your “best ideas,” praised it in July 2009, and in May 2009 said that “the best path to […]