retired doc's thoughts

I have written before about the troubling reports of certain test results following endurance events. There is evidence that in the earl...

In this article in Investor Business Daily we see how well government planning is working out in the Green area. Here is in in a nutshell....

Every time I re-read a section of Thomas Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions I am more impressed with how brilliant it is,how filled wit...

Victor R. Fuchs,Economics Professor Emeritus at Stanford, wrote a Perspective commentary in the August 18,2011 Issue of the New England Jour...

There has been and continues to be shortages in some of the older well proven cancer drugs. See here for an explanation of what is happenin...

I have ranted and sometime more reflectively argued quietly against the morality of the aggregate as it applies to medical practice. Rules,...

Amy Finkelstein ,a PhD economist from MIT,has "discovered" that people when given a card that lets them buy something cheaper than...

An interesting and insightful commentary by Arnold Kling and Mick Schult is found in the Summer issue of "National Affairs" and is...

See here for a report on some data gathering that should be filed under the heading of "very bloody obvious". The link is to the...

See here for a recent report on views of the IPAB. Particularly interesting were comments of someone who has been there and done things i...

Is there one at all?This commentary by the economist John Goodman argues there is none. After Dr.Goodman made his case he invited readers ...

I have blogged more than once ( see here and here )about meta-analyses (MA) and quoted Steve Goodman MD PhD more than once when he said ...

Henry J.Aaron,of the Brookings Institute, has written three commentaries in the Perspective section of the NEJM in the last year. He seems...

This commentary from the Coyote Blog is good fourth of July reading. Warren Meyer,a libertarian entrepreneur and prolific writer, who w...

As more and more inequities and unintended consequences of Obamacare are revealed as we learn more and more about the bill,we can see that t...

See here for David Henderson's remarks about a commentary from former white house adviser and Director of OMB and now VP of global ban...

 A recent commentary by one of favorite bloggers,Dr. Robert Centor, spoke favorably about IPAB, one of many,many provisions of ACA.See here...

When faced with a shortage in some good or services a good first guess as to what might be going on is to see if there are price controls at...

While I thought there was little doubt remaining about the relationship between cigarette smoking and PAD, a recent study published in the ...

The IPAB which was inserted into Obamacare at the last minute without anything approaching proper legislative review and contemplation estab...