You may have picked up on the recent media blitz relating President Obama’s meeting with a coalition of health industry leaders pledging to voluntarily cut $2 trillion of health care spending over 10 years. Don’t take it seriously. It won’t happen. In fact, nothing...
The most contentious issue in the current congressional health reform debate seems to be whether the government should offer a public health insurance plan for the uninsured. It’s a bad idea that will only further destabilize our already unsustainable health...
If there’s one thing that both sides of the congressional aisle seem to agree on, it is that health reform based on increased medical prevention and the adoption of electronic medical records(EMR) will save us all a lot of money. Unfortunately, they won’t do any such...
We recently witnessed the entry of yet another health reform bill, this time from Republicans promising, among other things, preservation of employer-based insurance. This echoes President Obama’s similar pledge. Such rare bipartisan agreement is consistent with...
