January 17, 2025

‘Take Away Healthcare’ to Improve Health Care

Anti-Trump progressives are shouting the now-ascendant Republicans are going to “take away your healthcare” and “deny Americans their ACA insurance.” Bravo! Because if that happens then finally, maybe, Americans might get the ...

January 6, 2025

Poisoning National Medals (with vaccine)

Soon-not-to-be President Biden recently awarded National Medals to the two pharmaceutical companies responsible for poisoning the American public with their self-proclaimed “vaccines.” This is a disgrace, a taint on these honors, and an a...

November 20, 2024

Trump (or RFK, Jr.) Can and Should ‘Untangle’ Medicaid

A recent post-election doomsday headline reads, “Trump’s White House return poised to tangle health care safety net.” The following are quotes from the litany of dire predictions that Trump will destroy the Medic...

October 17, 2024

Doctors Have Responsibility But No Authority

Nothing proves the title better than the recent reinstatement of a mask mandate in San Francisco hospitals. Every clinical doctor knows the data overwhelmingly proves they don’t work “to prevent the spread of the flu, COVID and other seas...

October 8, 2024

Who Raises Your Child — You or the ‘Village’?

In 2012, Hillary Clinton popularized an old African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child,” meaning the whole community should be involved in turning a small child into a productive adult member of society. Progressives have surrep...

September 9, 2024

To ‘Empower Patients’ – First Dispel Seven Myths

As Vice President Kamala Harris hides her support for Medicare for All, covertly championing her belief that healthcare is a fundamental human right, it becomes increasingly urgent to confront several myths that cloud the healthcare debate. Harris...

July 27, 2024

With Biden Out, Might We Avoid Another Federal ‘Fix That Fails’?

With Joe Biden not seeking re-election, might the American people be spared his latest cure for our sick healthcare system? Sadly, the answer is no. Systems thinkers describe behaviors or activities that repeatedly happen in complex organizations ...

July 8, 2024

Joe Biden Has Alzheimer’s

A recent New York Post article forced this physician-author to face facts. Our president meets all the medical criteria for a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Not being a psychiatrist, I reviewed recent information on this dreaded disease. I also had ...

June 17, 2024

Biden healthcare — more navigators, less care

“U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden recently announced a [new] $500 million investment” to add more navigators to the Affordable Care Act program. They say...

June 11, 2024

The unsung healthcare inequity

You can’t follow news about healthcare without seeing daily headlines about inequities in medical outcomes. Minority groups, whether divided by skin color, place of origin, religion, or legality of residence, are reported as having inferior hea...

May 16, 2024

Is Biden’s Final Rule the final straw?

CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) recently reported that, “Biden-Harris Administration Takes Historic Action to Increase Access to Quality Care.” Their latest Final Rule defines quality in health care and establishes what...

April 13, 2024

Washington’s Latest Health Care Whipping Boy

U.S. healthcare is failing (obviously).  Over the years, Washington and their complicit media have identified many different groups as blame-worthy, including wealthy insurance companies, greedy doctors, Big Pharma, and over-charging hospit...

April 3, 2024

CDC cries 'wolf,' again!

The CDC just released an ominous warning about the danger of the spread of meningococcal disease. What should the public make of this?   Apparently, CDC officials missed a couple of truisms that everyone else knows. First, t...

January 22, 2024

America’s Healthcare Potemkin Village

Numerous recent articles advise investors which healthcare stocks to buy and which ones to avoid.  Other economic reports confirm healthcare as one of the fastest growing segments for jobs in the...

December 2, 2023

Asking the (Healthcare) Arsonist to Douse the Fire

The U.S. has a critical shortage of medical professionals: nurses, mental health therapists, and particularly physicians.  The shortage has been worsening over the years and now is at crisis levels, with wait times for care s...

November 17, 2023

Restoring Public Trust In Doctors

People no longer trust their doctors. In addition to survey evidence, there is increasing violence against healthcare workers, worsening burnout of doctors and nurses, and accelerating erosion of the caregiving workforce. Restoring trust starts wi...

October 8, 2023

The Real Reason for the Kaiser Health Care Strike

Nurses at Kaiser Permanente have just engaged in the largest healthcare worker strike in U.S. history.  The reason reported for their walkout is feeling "burnt out and fed up."  Wage frustration and high staffi...

September 23, 2023

Pull Back the Curtain on False Federal Narratives

Narrative is a “a representation of a particular situation or process in such a way as to reflect or conform to an overarching set of aims, goals, themes, or values.”  A narrative is a story – actual, distorted, even fabri...

September 1, 2023

The Problem with Health Care Is Washington

Eschewing his usual bombastic rhetoric, Sen. Bernie Sanders took to the written word: "The day must come ... when we [federal government] guarantee health care for every man, woman, and child ... through a Medicare for All single payer syst...

August 16, 2023

Government healthcare Is a proven failure

We have entered the twilight zone. Bernie Sanders is pushing for a greater federal role in U.S. healthcare even as we watch the collapse of government-run healthcare in Great Britain and Canada  While single payer, socialized m...

July 31, 2023

Biden's Healthcare Rules Are Killing, Not Helping

Responding to reports of a mental health crisis, President Biden wants to create new rules that promise to "improve insurance coverage for mental health care in America."  Most people recall an Obama promise to...

July 27, 2023

Eliminate Fraud with Patient-Controlled Healthcare

Every day it seems, another story surfaces about fraud in healthcare, followed by glowing reports of how much the Biden administration has recovered. There is never any discussion about how to eliminate medical...

July 15, 2023

Biden Trying to Kill Short Term Health Insurance

President Biden has taken to the airwaves to sell his plan to crack down on short-term health insurance policies, which he terms “junk.” Taking away the right to choose is not only bad healthcare policy, it runs counter to ...

July 5, 2023

To celebrate US's 247th birthday, take back freedom, starting with medical autonomy

Recently, both Houses of Congress announced they were going to get serious about fixing health care.  House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) says he plans to create a commission to consider and fix the financial woes of t...

June 27, 2023

Six Reasons Price Transparency Won't Fix Healthcare

Washington's latest solution to the high cost of health care is to mandate price transparency, at present for institutions like hospitals and outpatient facilities, but eventually for everyone — even solo practitioners (if any sti...

June 20, 2023

Trust Is Gone from Healthcare (and Washington)

Americans no longer have faith in healthcare workers or medical institutions.  According to Wisconsin Public Radio, 2022 was the worst year on record for attacks against providers of medical care. The New York City Council recently cre...

June 9, 2023

Who Should Spend Your Precious Health Care Dollars?

This year, an average American family will expend $31,065 on health care costs, 39 percent of median take-home pay.  But the family won't spend that money.  Someone else will spend your money — a...

May 30, 2023

Medicare-for-All: Resurrection of a Terrible Idea

Progressive Democrats are trying to reintroduce their Medicare-for-All plan, a bait-&-switch scheme to impose single payer surreptitiously. It is national financial suicide, medical death-by-queue, and end of American medical ...

May 24, 2023

Good Financial News For Pharma Middlemen Spells Disaster for Patients

Most have heard the sick joke that starts, “I have good news and bad news. Which do you want first?” Following is very good financial news in healthcare that is terrible news for patients.  Optum PBM (pharmacy benefits management)...

May 22, 2023

A Shortage of Doctors?

A recent CNN headline — "We don't have enough doctors" — is quite accurate.  The explanation given for the M.D. shortage is completely wrong.  CNN notes the "health-care workforce shortage is ...

May 15, 2023

Now Schiff Has a Health Care Law

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA-30) just introduced his Equal Health Care for All Act, which he claims will assure "equitable health care for all Americans."  This bill belongs in the garbage bin, asap. Equitable is ...

May 1, 2023

'Lowering Health Care Costs' Is Not What Americans Need

Energy and Commerce committee chairperson Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) just announced (April 26, 2023) her committee's intent to "lower health care costs ... [because it] is the right thing for patients."  In fact, it is p...

April 13, 2023

There is no such thing as 'free' in healthcare

"Free preventative health care," recently  headline news, is a mirage, a pipe dream.  In fact, any service advertised as free does not exist, unless one wants to return to slavery.  In a free society,...

April 3, 2023

Obamacare: Still Killing People 13 Years In

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed his namesake legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) colloquially Obamacare, into law.  On March 23, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration celebrated the ACA's thirteenth anniv...

March 8, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Can’t Replace Your Doctor

Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently been touted as a revolutionary advance in clinical medicine that might save our failing healthcare system. A google search for “artificial intelligence in medicine or healthcare” display...

February 21, 2023

Healthcare Job Growth Brings Death-by-Queueing to U.S.

Based on a January 2023 jobs report, President Biden touted what he called the “strongest job growth in history.” The two sectors with greatest growth were hospitality and healthcare.  Biden failed to mention though, that increasing ...

January 29, 2023

Do Americans Really Want Universal Health Insurance?

A recently released Gallup poll on healthcare was simultaneously right and wrong.  It got statistically correct answers but asked the wrong questions. Fifty-seven percent of the 1,020 adults polled responded that "the federal government ...

January 18, 2023

Will Joe Biden's latest COVID ‘big con’ spark a second American Revolution?

President Biden has just extended the Declaration of Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID. Will his big con be today’s Stamp Act? A look at the history of that may be useful. In 1765, Great Britain passed the St...

January 13, 2023

The 'Final' Short-Term Word on COVID

The Biden administration has just extended its COVID scam, the "emperor's new clothes," by renewing the declaration of Public Health Emergency.  A recent poll shows that 52 percent of Americans still t...

October 27, 2022

Biden puts US children at grave medical risk

As a pediatrician (and cardiologist) for nearly fifty years, I cannot remain silent while President Biden — an unlicensed, untrained, wannabe physician — practices bad medicine on our nation's children.  Following the CDC...

October 22, 2022

On November 8, vote ‘D’ on healthcare if...

On November 8, 2022, Americans will cast their midterm election votes: to continue Democrat (“D”) policies or repudiate them by voting Republican (“R”).  The public knows what will happen if they decide to keep Democra...

September 16, 2022

The Four Roles Washington Plays in Healthcare

In healthcare, Washington currently plays four different roles: tyrant, physician, thief, and lawbreaker.  What role should Washington play? "Healthcare" as one word means the system.  As two words, health c...

September 6, 2022

Biden’s Healthcare Regulations Kill Americans, and Freedom

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act achieves a new, unenviable level of deception. It increases inflation rather than reduces it. The bill is primarily a further expansion of Washington’s regulatory control of healthcare....

September 1, 2022

Biden doesn't say unfunded mandate, but it is

The Biden administration announced its intent to stop paying for COVID vaccines and treatments.  Welcome to the latest unfunded health care mandate! At present, the federal government is paying the costs of mandatory vaccinatio...

August 24, 2022

Democrats Evade Accountability to Avoid Political Fallout

Decisions made by progressive Democrats over the past two years have greatly damaged our nation. How should Americans address these policy mistakes, so they do not happen again? When a commercial business makes a bad decision, feedback is obvious ...

August 18, 2022

Biden's Inflation Bill Is a Nest of Health Care Lies

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is Mark Twain's oft-used sardonic advice on how to lie effectively.  Progressive Democrats have updated Twain's phrase with lies, damned lies, and health care promises. The most ...

July 4, 2022

Dems' Information Control 'Cancels' July 4 Spirit

On July 4, 1776, newly minted Americans rejected tyranny, elevating liberty and individual freedom as the new nation's overarching principles. Current Democrat leaders — whether you call them leftists, progressives, socialists, radicals,...

June 3, 2022

Will Monkeypox Replace COVID as the Next Great Democrat Scam?

As dire COVID warnings fade from public view, they are being replaced by a new health clarion call: monkeypox. Is this a real existential threat to life or is monkeypox the next Democrat (COVID) scam? The evidence on the COVID scam is incontrovert...

February 28, 2022

COVID's Worst Victim: America's Trust

In 1969, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross published a seminal work, On Death and Dying, where she described five stages of grief that individuals experience after a profound emotional loss, such as the death of a loved one. Today, Americans are grieving...

February 18, 2022

Who's Best Situated to Figure Out the Truth about COVID?

Is COVID truly a threat to life on Earth, comparable to the bubonic plague?  Are school closures and lockdowns really necessary? Will vaccines protect us, and what about side effects?  If this is a "pandemic of...

February 13, 2022

Washington’s COVID Scam Killed Medical Freedom, and Americans

Medical freedom or autonomy gives people the right to choose with respect to their bodies; physicians the freedom to do what is best for a patient; and bio-scientists the freedom to communicate with, well, everyone.  Washington...

December 22, 2021

Biden tries to play doctor, commits triage malpractice

Medical triage is necessary when there are insufficient medical resources to meet all immediate patient needs in a specific location.  When three soldiers are bleeding out after a battle and there is only one surgeon on site, that doctor...

December 18, 2021

The COVID Scam: The Progressive Path to Power, and Tyranny

Physicians who still practice medicine cannot afford to write or say the following for fear of being canceled.  As a retired physician, I cannot be coerced to keep silent with threats to my medical license or hospital privileges.  COVID-...

July 29, 2021

Money and health insurance are inherently worthless

A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Congress Can't Enact a Chicken" (WSJ 072621), offered Washington a very important lesson in basic economics.  Unfortunately, this will fall on intentionally deaf ears in D.C. M...

May 16, 2020

Release Free Market for Affordable, Accessible Medical Care

There are several lessons we have learned from the CoViD-19 experience such as: the unreliability of predictive models; the danger of depending on foreign supply chains; over-reaction can be a deadly as under-reaction; and the need for be...