The Innovation Deficit Peter Thiel is a smart fellow. One of the founders of Paypal, businessmen like him and economists like Tyler Cowen insistently argue innovation is declining throughout the globe. One area that really does not appear to be innovating well is health. Which makes sense. Particularly if your definition of what you’re attempting […]
Who Will Pay For Health Care? (11/13/12)
So Where’s the Money? The election is over. Who will now pay for health care? There’s a simple answer – you will. Where Will You See Increased Costs? First through higher co-pays. The Affordable Care Act does little to control health insurance pricing or capriciousness (we paid for it last week but we decided against […]
What Will Create the Next Epidemic? (10/8/12)
Meningitis, Salmonella, and… Meningitis arrives through contaminated spinal steroid injections by pain specialists. Salmonella infects hundreds of Americans via Dutch smoked salmon sold by Cisco. Dozens die. People are again unnerved by infection. Will there be a new form of AIDS, or SARS, or something truly unknown coming to kill us? And what will we […]
Simple Ways to Live Longer – the Kungsholmen Study (9/18/12)
Keeping Healthy in Kungsholmen Modifiable lifestyle factors can add six years to men and five years’ to women’s lifespan at age 75. They can even expand survival four years in those aged 85. These are some of the results of an important study from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm published in the British Medical Journal. […]