JCI in India
From time-to-time, we’ll share some of the correspondence we receive, with permission of the sender. Here is a note about the JCI in India from a…
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Medical Tourism: There Is No Free Ride! Death at Bumrungrad International Hospital As a public service, Dr. James R. Goldberg is pleased to make available a…
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Judgment Day in Washington: Why Andy Slavitt Must Not Run Medicare
Many of us cheered in January of this year when Marilyn Tavenner, the woman who headed the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, announced she’d be…
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Population Health: The Insurance Cartel’s Next Big Move in Dominating Medical Care
The July 21, 2015 Forbes article, “How Population Health Became a Multi Billion Dollar Pay Play for Insurers,” is indication of a further step being taken…
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The Art and Riches of Value-Based Care: A Malevolent New Medical Pseudoscience
Not so long ago there was a time when unconventional treatments—alternative modalities of care—were dismissed by the traditional medical community as being incorrectly presented to patients…
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Obamacare Has Never Been about Anything Affordable for You
After the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, Obama strode into the Rose Garden and just made stuff up. Straight-faced, he said families are paying about…
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Will Good Doctors Be There When You Are Most in Need?
Yes, some doctors do make good money and they should. But the erroneous idea that all doctors are rich is simply untrue. As the middle class…
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Our New Godzilla: Health Insurance Consolidation
Update July 24, 2015: Anthem agrees to acquire Cigna for $54 billion, still holding the #2 position—for now. The big three: UnitedHealth, Anthem (Cigna) and Aetna (Humana). Update July 3, 2015: Aetna…
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Optum, Inc. Makes Big Moves Since Rising from the Ashes of UnitedHealth Group’s Infamous Ingenix
Presto Chango, Can a Leopard Change His Spots? UnitedHealth cured the Ingenix stigma by simply changing its name to OptumInsight. It’s as though they made a…
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