Sacrificing Freedom to Vaccination
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. According to the Oath of Hippocrates, physicians have the duty to advise their patients according to the best of their ability and judgment. In In most cases, most physicians recommend […]
Jumping Into Medicare For All With Eyes Wide Shut
by Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD The unveiling of the ballyhooed House of Representatives Medicare for All Act of 2019 bill will be met with chants of “equal healthcare for all!” While the country will […]
SOTU 2019 and American Medicine
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. While President Trump called for unity and cooperation in his 2019 State of the Union address, the views of the audience showed a sharp and bitter divide, especially on issues […]
Eugenics, Euthanasia, Infanticide, and the Lord’s Work
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD New York’s Catholic Democratic Governor had the World Trade Center in lights to celebrate its abortion-on-demand-until-the-day-of-birth law. This law was framed as empowering women through guaranteeing “Reproductive Health.” Women […]
Free, Black and Twenty-one
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD I ran into a 20-something fellow wearing a T-shirt that said “I love being black.” I had a wave of fond nostalgia remembering how my mother began our outings […]
New Years Wish: No More Morally Superior Phonies
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD My new year’s resolution is to expose the hypocrisy of the morally superior politicians whose election strategy was to pretend they cared about crafting policies in the country’s best […]
So What If ACA Is Unconstitutional?
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Stocks of hospital and Medicaid-contracted managed-care companies plunged on the announcement of Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional. Some advisors consider this a “buying […]
The Healthcare Revolution: More Choices, Not More Taxes
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Paris is in flames over a fuel tax increase that would pile 30 cents onto the $7.06 per gallon price paid by citizens whose average monthly salary is $2,753.This […]
Epidemics, Fear and Denial: How Every American Is Threatened
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. This is the one hundredth anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. In his book The Great Influenza, John M. Barry described it as the deadliest plague in history. […]
The Children, the Caravan, and Health
Jane M. Orient, M.D. There are three aspects to the caravan: what is shown by the media; what is there to be seen; and what is unseen. The focus is on the innocent children, as […]
