The Study You’ll Never Hear About

According to a new Commonwealth Fund sponsored study published in Health Affairs , “ Small Primary Care Physician Practices Have Low Rates O...

Introduction to Hypoliquidemia

The venerable University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston will accept patients with traditional Texas Medicaid health insurance...

Health Care for the Poor: The Sequel

In a previous post , I described how the American health care system is morphing into a system designed to service impoverished populations,...

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...