retired doc's thoughts

 The issue of possible conflicts of interest (COI) has arisen in regard to both the National Quality Forum,  (NQF) and the popular UpToDate....

The situation involving recent projections about job loss and Obamacare from the Congressional Budget Office and the White House's react...

Leah Binder, writing in Forbes on line ( see here ) argues that the answer is "maybe" at least as regards what she calls badly des...

Advocates of Obamacare in defense  of it in spite of all the flaws and the ever increasingly list of unintended and intended- but not advert...

Projections assuming the wide acceptance of peri operative beta blocker guidelines in Europe suggests the answer is a frightening yes..See h...

As this Forbes article by Scott Gottlieb explains,Medicare Advantage programs are in the cross hairs of the Obama administration as ACA con...

Of course no one person wrote the bill,it took a small village of cronies to put it together being as careful as they could to make sure tha...

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 ...