Take a look in the rear view mirror, and the scene in the front of you is gone. That’s what’s happening to Medicare, but is nothing compared to what is planned. Thanks to the confluence of politics and money the closest thing in the nation to universal medical care is in the process of converting […]
Medical Overuse (8/12/13)
Three Trillion a Year How did American health care come to cost nearly three trillion dollars a year? One place to look is at procedures – diagnostic tests and therapeutic treatments. In terms of costs, “procedures” can be as simple as a red blood cell count or as complicated as a liver transplant. Hospitals, drug […]
Is this really “The End of Illness”? (2/29/12)
We Need a New Health Paradigm Sorry. We’re not about to see “The End of Illness,” the title of the popular new health book written by oncologist/entrepreneur Dr. David Agus. Agus promises a lot. You will be able to “live robustly to a ripe old age of one hundred or more.” Then you will die, […]
Another forgotten war – food safety, health, and terrorism (10/17/11)
The War on “Terror” How do you recognize an agricultural inspector who saves California from an infestation of citrus canker? Give him a job sorting travellers’ dirty laundry. Welcome to the wacky world of the “war on terrorism” – American division – post 9/11. What Kind of Security? Investigative journalism still lives, for now. The […]