In Support of Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

“The Affordable Care Act, the health care law of 2010, created a Prevention and Public Health Fund. The fund is an unprecedented investment ...

Fast Medicine

How are you feeling today? Do you feel a bit under the weather? Maybe you have some aches and pains, or a miserable flu, or maybe you have s...

Game of Interoperabilities

In 2004 President Bush created the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), introducing the notion that H...

The Shell Game of Health-Contingent Insurance

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll earlier this month, it seems that three years after its passage, opinions about the Patient P...

De Novo EMR Design Part III: Computer… Computer… Hello Computer…

Continuing our fantasy journey towards a patient care oriented EMR for primary care physicians, let’s quickly recap our progress. After much...

Around the Primary Care World in 80 Seconds

We spend a lot of money on health care in the U.S., but we spend a lot of money on other amenities as well, so how do we know if we are spen...

The Destructive Recreation of Health Care

A dark wind is beginning to blow through the tortured landscape of health care in America. At the confluence of the corporate cold front wit...