The Ethics of Big Data Workers

A new study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The study is titl...

We are Number Last

The Commonwealth Fund just published its fourth Mirror, Mirror on the Wall study comparing the U.S. health care system with other countries...

Health Care for the Poor

There are over 16,000,000 American children (21.8%) who live in official poverty and double that number who are just poor. This is not hap...

It is Time to Stifle Some Innovation

Stifling innovation is a very bad thing. As a society it is incumbent upon us to let innovation breath free, prosper and multiply, because i...

As Health Care Learns and Grows…

While grappling with the costs and imperfections of our health care system in recent years, a multitude of experts in the field found it use...

Translucency with Turbid Clouds

Did you ever read a seemingly inconsequential sentence somewhere and it then just refused to leave your mind for days on end, triggering ava...

Our Cheap and Productive Lives

So you think there is a war on doctors, don’t you? It certainly looks that way from your particular vantage point. The government is deftly ...