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Healthcare fatigue syndrome

The Hill reports today on a new illness plaguing denizens of the US Capitol: healthcare fatigue syndrome (find the report

Improving Care at the End of Life

I have been thinking about those “Death Panels” (Sarah Palin). So I thought I’d revisit a publication of the Institute of Medicine, the medical wing of the National Academy of Science.

Corporate Welfare Is Health System Waste

The Deseret News published my op ed piece (find it here) this morning, which is posted bel

A Little Girl and her Flu

JoNel Aleccia, health writer for MSNBC, posted a story about a four year old girl in Mississippi who nearly died of the H1N1 flu (find the story

Penalizing the Uninsured: The Mandate Conflict

A major conflict between health insurers and Congress has erupted over the weekend, fallout from the decision to reduce the penalty for failing to buy health insurance under the individual mandate.

Medical advertising is worse than unethical

Self-Serving Health Insurance Industry

Almost exactly seven months ago, on this blog, I quoted Karen Ignagni, CEO of the health insurance trade group AHIP, saying something about the commitment of America's health insurance industry to

Worthless and Unworkable

The following was written by Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D. who is Professor and Chair, Urban Studies Department, Queens College/CUNY. I think it safe to say that Prof.

A Shell Game

The Washington Post has finally printed the facts about the fiction coming from the Senate Finance Committee (find it

Knotty Issues Remain

Tom Curry, national affairs writer for MSNBC, has created a list of 'knotty' issues which remain to be solved before congressional action on health reform (find it