retired doc's thoughts

Go here to read a publication from the folks at the NCPA telling the readers much they need to know about PPACA . It is a welcome coun...

DB of "DB's Medical Rants" takes another opportunity to direct some of his typical well thought out criticism against the da...

Should medical student applicants be chosen less for their demonstrated ability to master large amounts of knowledge and solve problems and...

Two recently released projections of what Obama Care (PPACA aka ACA) will do paint different pictures. The paper by the Medicare Trustees t...

I suspect we will be hearing more and more about paying for "quality" since the recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to be th...

While Dr. Don Berwick , Obama's recess appointee to head CMS , speaks of Britain's NHS in glowing if not poetic and outlandishly l...

Go here to see the labyrinth of provisions, regulations, deadlines,subsides and cross subsidies from the hundreds of thousands of words fr...

An essay that is receiving much attention as it should is available here .The author is Angelo M. Codevilla, a professor emeritus from Bos...

For a while it seemed only a few medical blogs were expressing concern about Dr. Donald Berwick's suitability to be the head of CMS. See...

Apart from some apparently radically contradictory expressed views on patient "centerness " and patients being in control ( see h...

H/T to Keithhennessey .com for calling attention to the fact that Dr. Donald Berwick did not reply to Senate Democrats questions regarding ...

President Obama has appointed Dr. Donald Berwick as head of CMS during Congress's recess .If you like central planning and the notion of...

There is benefit to make a law ambiguous-at least to the bureaucrats whose rule making will give that law operational meaning. There is be...

Ever since I retired I have had my eyes open for a suitable job opportunity. This might work. Thanks to the Carpe Diem blog for the referen...

High fives to the endlessly insightful blog of John Goodman for what I believe is the best designation yet for PPACA which is also known as...

This article , from the WSJ, tells a precautionary tale that has been told many times in the past.It is a narrative with apparent deal-maki...

A recent publication in the publication "Health Affairs" has evoked comments and some concern from advocates of comparative effec...

According to this article in the Christian Science Monitor, the Justice Department says it is -at least in regard to as physicians. This g...

The blog commentary by Dr. David Rind discusses the issue of composite end points in clinical trials and in particular the CREST trial which...

This paper (see here ) regarding P4P and its impact on surgery or the lack of it for the obese patient has received at least two appropriat...