Archives By Month: October 2018
Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice by Moving from a Vertical to a Horizontal Industry: Non Participation in Government Programs
Medicine and Liberty – Network of Liberty Oriented Doctors, MedLib.ch/, Alphonse Crespo, MD, Executive Director and Founder Medicine & Liberty (MedLib) is an independent physician network founded in 2007, dedicated to the study and advocacy of liberty, ethics & market in medical services. – We support professional autonomy for doctors and liberty of choice for […]
July Quarterly Journal
Electronic Medical Records: The Potemkin Village of Healthcare Health is better than wealth Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice How to make Health Care Less Costly Is Direct Primary Care a Game Changer? The Kavanaugh Character Assassination Sham Peer Review It begins and ends with the patient The Fifth Circuit tees up a major separation of […]
Coming together, Keeping together, Working together
“Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progress; Working together is success.” –Henry Ford
Understanding the present problem
The Major Current Problems in HealthCare The $3 trillion health care industry is the only major segment of the economy that is failing, and there is nothing the employer, insurance carrier or government can do about it. Health care is the only product or service (outside of public education) that has consistently grown worse over […]
Innovations will never come from insurance companies
Innovations in the American Health Care Network will not and cannot come from insurance companies. They are in the business of making a profit as all good corporations seek to do. They have to remain profitable to be able to sell shares and grow. The corporate practice of medicine was outlawed in most states. They […]
President Trump is thinking of a government shut-down
Senator Wilson: Immigration is becoming a serious problem, as if it hasn’t been for some time. The influx from our Southern border is presenting some new hazards. Senator Sampson: Hispanics have come across our borders for decades. What is so different now? Senator Wilson: The influx has been increasing. We’ve had one amnesty for the […]
Modernization can at times be very expensive
I served my internship at Wayne County General Hospital. We were the first class of 36 interns to work in the new 500 bed orange and silver aluminum hospital built in the form of a Grecian cross-a square center with four arms of equal length. The old hospital had the standard characteristic large 40 to […]
The Most Energetic Area of Lean Practice
James Womack: The Lean MovementWith the current activity to increase the minimum wage, we need to review what James Womack said in 2008 when he was reflecting on the progress of the Lean Movement: “One critical indicator is our success in extending lean thinking to new industries and activities. In recent years I have been […]
Obamacare: What We Know Now
By Michael D. Tanner The CATO Institute January 27, 2014 For all intents and purposes, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, has been fully implemented. And while much of the media coverage has been dominated by the technical failures of the program’s initial rollout, we are also learning much […]
Singapore’s Health Care System
Singapore’s Health Care Ranked First in an International Comparison A new study shows that Singapore’s health-care system places first when compared with the health-care systems of seven other countries. Canadian health economist Cynthia Ramsay ranked the health-care systems of Singapore, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Australia and South Africa. The study […]