Money, Media, and Medical Care
By Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD: More than 50 years ago Professor Marshall McLuhan posited that the medium is the message. Now it seems that money is the medium of the message. This month Medical Marketing […]
Platitudes and Glittering Generalities
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD We are living in strange times. Virtual money, virtual friends, virtual reality. And regrettably, we are currently burdened with virtual leaders and virtual health insurance coverage. Last month’s Gallup […]
Soporifics and Soullessness
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Have we lost our collective minds? A mass shooting with no readily apparent motive is an extreme representation of our sense that our social fabric is unraveling. This is […]
California’s Very Expensive Free Lunch
By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. California’s state senate’s unipartisan passing of a sweeping single-payer health care bill, the Healthy California Act, has drawn attention to single payer as a solution to the decaying Affordable […]
Legislative Update: AHCA edition
In this edition of Legislative Update, Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD dissects AHCA. We know what’s in the House version, but what will the Senate come up with? The American Health Care Act, H.R. 1628—passed by […]
Legislative Update – March 15, 2017
“Beware of the Ides of March as both parties slowly kill us all off!” ~Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD reports on the latest battles in health care legislation on Capitol Hill. Revisions to the ACA Revisions […]
The Oath of Hypocrisy—and the Politicians’ “Disease”
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD As I physician, I proudly recited and adhere to the Oath of Hippocrates, which commands physicians to “use treatment to help the sick according to [their] ability and judgment […]
Legislative Update February 6, 2017
As we enter the second month of the 115th Congress, Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD is out with her review of the latest medical care related proposals on Capitol Hill, from full ACA repeal to Medicare […]
Legislative Update: January 17, 2017
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD is back with her first legislative update for the 115th Congress. The 115th United States Congress has convened with the introduction of numerous health care bills. Most bills we looked at last year have […]
You’re Old, You’re Sick, Get Over It
by Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. Senior citizens, don’t be fooled. The federal government asserts that Medicare sets a high bar for medical care and we are lucky to have it. Not so. It does, […]
