By: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D. Donald Berwick, in charge of Medicare and Medicaid, says “Too many Americans are being harmed by care that is supposed to help them.” I say “Too many Americans are being harmed […]

Volume 67, no. 9 September 2011 In 1883, the great river pilot Mark Twain warned that 10,000 river commissions could not control the mighty Mississippi. However, after 1865, General Andrew Humphreys, who greatly enjoyed the […]

Keith Smith, MD, founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma City, now has a blog focusing on free market solutions that increase quality, decrease cost, and empower patients.  The Surgey Center of OK provides price transparency for by […]

By: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D. We hear much talk about preventive care, but nobody has defined it. From the content of the discussions, I deduce that what the health bureaucrats actually refer to would be better […]

By: Jane M. Orient, M.D. Politicians love to boast of the benefits they shower on favored   constituents with their right hand. But as with the amazing feats performed by magicians, the unwary audience is watching the […]

By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The earth moved in Japan, and thousands of people were buried in rubble or washed out to sea. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, and suffering from thirst, hunger, and cold. […]

By: Alieta Eck, M.D., The 50 governors of the United States are beginning to demonstrate some backbone. They now must remind the federal government that with ObamaCare it has overstepped its bounds. Andrew Cuomo, Democrat […]