As Congress debates healthcare reform, we often hear that hopes for comprehensive reform — fundamental changes, like a public plan or a radical, Netherlands-like overhaul of regulation — simply aren’t realistic. I hope to explore later why this seems so to those casting the votes. In the meantime, a couple reports make an interesting juxtaposition.
Continue reading →“The greatest fear Democrats should have at this point is what will happen when millions of hard-working, lower-middle-class American families without health insurance are told they’re about to be slapped with a $500 to $1000-a-month bill to buy a plan … [and] be told that their employers and the government aren’t going to help out.”
Continue reading →As Obama explains, world leaders are puzzled that healthcare gets painted with a Hitler moustache. and other news.
Continue reading →Eric Michael Johnson contemplates the hearts, minds, teeth, and claws of bonobos and other primates, while — no fault of Eric’s — the flu, the end of publishing, and the death of the uninsured march on. Plus some great old surgery footage.
Continue reading →Hard to accept that doctors miss things. They always will. The shame is that they so often miss things and then bury the mistakes — as they do now about 10-15% of the time.
Continue reading →The good news? The US’s swine flu vaccines seem to work really well. The bad news? Because they use twice as much antigen as necessary, they leave about a quarter BILLION people elsewhere naked to the virus.
Continue reading →A couple observers — one on Olbermann, one in a biz publication — think Baucus's plan is so bad, and his dead-end path so disastrous, that it could generate a response that includes either a robust public option or even (longer-term) a single-payer plan. From The 5 Must-Read Takes of Health Care Bill From Baucus at the […]
Continue reading →I regret I can’t handle at more length, the following weighty and pressing matters:
Continue reading →Proud to be the 37th best healthcare system in the world. As Merrill Goozner says, “This says it all.”
Continue reading →Amid the talk on improving such knowledge as part of healthcare reform, a vital and fairly cheap way to generate some of it — the autopsy — is going ignored.
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