In health care, sometimes the past lies well ahead of the future. Now that the American Health Care Act has failed again, it’s time to consider past health care proposals, especially from a Republican president. In 1972, Richard Nixon gave a special address to Congress. American health care, at $75 billion a year, was far too […]
Pole Dancing With The Stars
For a delirious moment Beatrice M. lifted upwards towards the sun. As she flew the sky deepened from blue to blue-black. Suddenly Beatrice leapt into a velvet curtain of stars. There she danced among the gods – straight up her pole. The auditions listed on Tumblr and Facebook had to be be a joke – […]
Dirty Secrets of Health Care II – Preauthorization
We Know How to Say No Nancy Reagen was right. You just say no. Except health care companies have learned new, exciting ways to say no – for their bottom line. And how they do it will receive understanding winks from bureaucrats around the world – give the appearance of due process, of fair hearing, […]
Dirty Secrets of American Health Care – Drug Pricing
If you need a drug to live, you will do what you need to get it. This “secret” has been exploited by drug companies for many years. Now this form of exploitation has turned particularly obscene. Hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli took over a small drug company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, because he sensed an “opportunity.” What was […]
Checklist Medicine Checks You Out
Why Your Doctor Doesn’t Look at You Anymore Should you treat the chart, or the patient? Increasingly over the past decades healthworkers of all stripes – doctors and nurses, therapists and technicians – buff the chart first. Legal, insurance and regulatory requirements have burgeoned to overcome the concerns of health. Checklists work very well in military and […]
