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The most powerful persuasion tool in enlightened human society is language. The most powerful manipulation tool in any human society is lang...
John Stossel Discovers Health Care Dysfunction, Blames it on "Socialists" - Like Maurice Greenberg (AIG), John Thain (Merrill Lynch), Sanford Weill (Citigroup), and David H Koch?
We have been ranting for a while about the dysfunctionality of the US health care system. Unfortunately, many people only realize how bad t...
Lown Institute/ Right Care Alliance 2016 Conference
I am back from the annual Lown Institute / Right Care Alliance meeting in Chicago. A considerable part of the meeting was devoted to issue...
Bringing the Best of Religion into Medicine
Yesterday I went to the funeral of my older daughter-in-law's mother . She was a much-loved person who was very active in her church. Th...
If I switch health plans halfway through the year, can my deductible be transferred or prorated?
Insurance companies are not required to credit money consumers already paid in cost sharing from prior plans but sometimes they do for emp...
The More Things Stay the Same - More Apparently Adulterated Heparin, This Time from Chinese Ruminants
The story of the contaminated heparin just will not go away. We first wrote about it in 2008 (see first post here , most related posts here...
SandersCare- Optimistic, Incomplete and Doomed
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is $1.1 trillion I concluded a few weeks ago that Donald Trump’s health care plan was a loser . ...
Hacking Doctors… to Pieces
For decades and decades we have been counting the number of doctors in America. For decades and decades we have been coming up short compare...
Euthanasia and the Slippery Slope
Some of the arguments for and against what is now being called "Physician Assisted Death" (PAD) rest on core ethical beliefs and ...
Haddad Lecture: Impact of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance on Economic Inequality
Today’s Managing Health Care Costs Number is 14 I gave the Fourteenth Annual Ernest Haddad lecture at Massachusetts General Hospital's M...
"Immersion Day" to Expose Hospital Board Members to Real Health Care for a Day - A Great Idea, but Why Should It Be News?
Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Bock and Paulus describing an innovative program at Mission Health in...
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