retired doc's thoughts

George H. Smith in his book "The System of Liberty" in the chapter entitled "Liberalism,Old and New" discusses how the c...

 Matt Welch, writing in Reason.com ( see here ) offers the following concise summary of what is fundamental to making ACA work. "The...

Dr. Paul Hsieh answers the question posed in the title in his recent commentary in Forbes. See here . He outlines four important ominous ...

The more I read and the more I think about what I read and the more things seem to change but really stay the same I develop a  renewed se...

 Daily, both in the main stream press and in the blogger world, more and more ACA bad news is reported and dissected. But the cancelled po...

Following the Annals of Internal Medicine's publication of the latest recommendations of the USPTSP regarding breast cancer screening, ...

In a recent interview Dr. Jonathan Gruber,a MIT economist whose name is closely linked to ACA gave a broad outline of who gains and who loos...

The long running,thoughtful  blog "DrWes" discusses an important issue .See here . The author is Dr.Westby G. Fisher,a cardiac e...

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

1. Don Boudreaux , economist from George Mason University, blends the history of the Plymouth Colonies,Thanksgiving, the purported right to ...

Both the new medical Professionalism and the current rendition of the ethics of the American College of Physicians have added to the long st...

1. Contrary to the silly claim made in the even sillier comparison between Obamacare and Katrina  that " at least Obamacare  did not ki...

Those who believe it is a feature argue something like the following: Part of the funding for Obamacare was supposed to come from forcing ...

Dr John Goodman's website explains what is happening. See here . Less money will be paid by the government to hospitals that provide med...

 Here are few items of possible interest regarding ACA, some fairly trivial,others more significant. 1. Bob Doherty of the ACP blog ACP A...

One of George Will's more valuable insights is that Congress does not pass legislation anymore but rather passes "intentions"....

The spin being spun by the ACA apologists regarding the hundreds of thousands of medical insurance policies that have been cancelled is that...

The politicization of medicine is a topic raised and discussed cogently by Dr. Thomas Huddle. See here for an abstract of his article. F...

Older physicians,inculcated as they were with outmoded,no longer applicable in the new millennium, ethical principles might have wondered ho...

Here is the entire sentence from which part of this posting's title derives: "You are stewards of a globally important treasure: ...