Although an attorney representing the federal government said that it “has not conceded that vaccines cause autism,” Associated Press headlines read that “officials concede vaccines’ link to illness like autism” (AP 3/6/08). Petitioner Hannah Joling, […]
As former Comptroller General David Walker told 60 Minutes, the unfunded liabilities of entitlement programs, especially Medicare, are so huge that even shutting down the Pentagon would not help significantly. He states that leaving this […]
Recent news from the UK: 1. Statistics obtained by Conservatives show that the number of patients released from British National Health Service (NHS) hospitals with malnutrition has doubled in the decade since Labour came to […]
While pressure mounts to get doctors to follow “best practices,” getting patients to follow them will be even more difficult. A 2007 Harris Interactive poll found that 43% of Americans say they are concerned about […]
Merck and Schering-Plough are running full page ads, as in the Wall Street Journal, in an attempt to control the damage from a study questioning the benefits of ezetimibe (Zetia) or Vytorin (ezetimibe/simvastatin). “All of […]
Children are getting their fingerprints scanned every day at school—to make the lunch line move faster. It’s more efficient than debit cards, ID cards, or cash. State Senator Karen Johnson of Arizona is trying to […]
Ignored by most politicians, David Walker, who heads the Government Accountability Office (GAO), is taking his message on tour. His presentation on the unsustainability of the U.S. economy can be viewed on YouTube. The biggest […]
Volume 64, No. 1 January 2008 STUPID IDEAS ON “HEALTH CARE REFORM” The American College of Physicians (ACP), the second-largest physician group in the U.S., has repackaged its perennial call for socialized medicine as “evidence […]
The New York State health department has plans: to control the cost of hospital care, and to rescue the state’s malpractice insurance carriers. In 2006, the “Berger Commission” (the Commission on Health Care Facilities in […]
The penalties for not buying insurance in Massachusetts have been set too low to “encourage” compliance, stated Jonathan Gruber, a director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector. The proposed 2008 top penalty of $912 per […]
