retired doc's thoughts

You will not find defenders of Obamacare (aka ObamaCONcare) evoking Public Choice Theory (PCT).In some instances this is out of ignorance of...

Dr. Roy Poses writes about the odyssey of Nancy DeParle from the health care industry to the health care legislative reform con job known as...

Epidemiology 101 describes reasons for a correlation, namely :" causation,bias,confounding and chance".But fraud should also be on...

Quoting the increasingly insightful Arnold Kling; "Keep in mind that there is no perfect system for compensating doctors. For examp...

Here are two real docs telling a story that seems to be lost to many of the medical elite who smoke the progressive pipe and sing the manta ...

Obamacare was lauded by some democratic senators and some medical organizations ( e.g. the AMA and ACP) as finally delivering  long awaited ...

 Let's take at look at the the strange journey of physician's ethics from fiduciary duty to the patient to stewards of society's...

 The term "Rule of Law" may be discussed in at least three  different contextual frameworks. The formal or so called thin interpre...

The title comes from the following paragraph written by Nobel prize winning economist Vernon Smith in his 2008 book entitled "Rationali...

 Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel seems to make exactly that point in this WSJ opinion piece. Quoting Dr. Emanuel : "Here is the specific prob...

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by those they elected, if laws be so voluminous that they cannot be r...

Apparently in the history of economics for a while the early thinkers in the field were a bit perplexed by what was known as the diamond-w...

In the 1 Feb 2011 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine,an ACP committee offers up a entry entitled High-Value, Cost Conscious H...

Since many states have not and may not ever establish insurance exchanges,a key component of ACA,the federal government is moving ahead to p...

Fee for service has increasingly become the bogus reason for  all of what is wrong with health care in the U.S. Now a  group of self designa...

The "physician as a steward" idea is implicit in Medical Professionalism as defined and promoted by a number of physicians who I l...

Since the medical progressive leadership has at least nominally enshrined the pursuit of social justice as a ethical requirement for all phy...

In a society in which individuals are more or less free to interact with one another and seek each other's services and goods the follow...