Healthcare - Category Archive

Want doctors to innovate? Free them!
 |  October 11, 2010

10/11/2010 – Steven Goldfien, MD – Peter Orszag, formerly the Director of the White Office of Management and Budget, appears to have found a new career as a pundit for the NYT. The fact that he’s chosen to admonish doctors in a recent sermon at least means that the new preacher and his chosen pulpit [...]

The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
 |  August 12, 2009

The Wall Street Journal | by John Mackey | Aug. 11, 2009 With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible [...]

Health Care Is Not That Complicated
 |  June 17, 2009

American Thinker | by C. Edmund Wright | June 16, 2009 It is no more practical to have “health insurance” to pay for prescription drugs and routine doctor visits than it is to expect your auto insurance to pay for your oil changes and tire rotations. But we do. Consider: if a health insurance type [...]

Rating Your Doctor
 |  May 28, 2009

Forbes | by David Whelan | May 25, 2009 Last April doctors told 70-year-old Roseanne Brennan that her mitral heart valve needed to be replaced. It’s a major operation, and she didn’t want to take any chances. So she researched six hospitals near her home in Williamsburg, Va. on a Web site called Health Grades. [...]