retired doc's thoughts

In a lengthy,somewhat complicated and IMO very reasonable analysis John Goodman plows through various scenarios that seem likely if/when the...

Is the deck already stacked for a regulatory capture type scenario in regard to the government version of comparative effectiveness research...

Mohamed Alli made the rope-a-dope (RAD) strategy famous by using it successfully against George Foreman and Joe Frazier. It consisted of lea...

Much of the argument involving the health care deconstruction-reconstruction bills (misleadingly labeled as reform) that is reported and e...

I will argue that it is the price controls on the fees and not the fee-for-service (ffs) system per se. The more popular argument is to the ...

This article in the Wall street Journal,Opinion, on line discusses how the mandating or community rating and guaranteed issue for health c...

Being physically and cognitively active and social engaged are suggested by this article as things you can do that might delay or even prev...

Senator Debbie Stabenow has introduced a bill to abolish the dreaded SGR ( Sustainable growth rate) mechanism by which physician fees under...

This news item seems to show another side to Mayo Clinic who has received nothing but praise from some quarters regarding their reputation ...

How many times have we heard the refrain "If you are happy with your health care plan you can keep it"? Well, we'll see what h...

If you consider the problem to be "some folks are unable to obtain health insurance"because of bad health, then you might want to ...

The blog "Diagnosis", which is one of three blogs connected the New Atlantis.com, offers a detailed analysis of the effect of a pr...

The health care crisis is increasingly being blamed on folks with bad health habits and particularly the obese. Nothing seems outside of th...

The Medical Recovery Audits system has designated various contractors to execute this program to audit physician's practices searching f...

I read the medical blog "The Last Psychiatrist" (TLP) regularly.Sometimes I think I understand it.I keep going back because at som...

A very grateful tip of the hat to Health Care Renewal for information about one of the things that lies in store after the next presidentia...

Patients and physicians alike had to be a bit worried when this study suggested that PPIs decrease the efficacy of clopidogrel and could l...

Health care costs too much and it will cost more and we are told that a major cause of this is the fee for service system (apparently obesit...

Arnold Kling is one of the economists whose blogs I have begun to read lately ( lately being since the stock market tanking in 2008 scared ...

The United States has moved to impose a tariff on imported tires from China.See here for WSJ article. With the stock market swoon of 2008 ...