Are you a white-knuckle flier? My sympathy. Planes are scary and dangerous. But let’s see: In the last 10 years, a passenger has stepped onto a U.S. airline about 7 billion times. How many of those 7 billion times did the passenger...
Picture this – your baby has infantile spasms (IS), a rare condition that could kill. Only one drug works, Acthor from Questcor Pharmaceuticals. The drug costs $1,650 a vial – until Questcor jumps the price to more than $23,000 a vial, putting the cost for...
The usual thing. A party. Neighbor asks what I do. The usual discussion. Universal healthcare. Neighbor asks, “But why should my tax dollars support healthcare for, say, people who smoke, or who made themselves obese and then can’t seem to control...
The other day the San Francisco Chronicle carried an article by their Washington correspondent in which a number of economists speculated that, for the first time, it seems reasonably possible that the United States Government is headed for a financial meltdown of the...
So John McCain has been taking jabs at Barack Obama for suggesting that all employers should be forced to carry health insurance for all employees. In response, Obama's camp has come out with a new detail: A tax credit of up to 50% of the premiums for all small...
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, 5/10/08)Health care organizations need to buckle down and deliver care that is better, faster, cheaper.Here’s what we know: Come next January, the United States will have a new president and a new Congress. We can bet that...
