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Healthcare: Right or Responsibility?
By STEPHEN C. SCHIMPFF, MD During the presidential debates, Tom Brokow asked, “Is healthcare a right, a privilege or a responsibility?”The candidates did not answer the question, but now would be a...
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How Many Diseases Does It Take?
By MARYA ZILBERBERG, MD It is not a secret that I dislike tobacco companies. Intensely. I do not see the point of allowing them to sell a product whose value is all in the negative. I am appalled that...
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What About Personal Responsibility?
By JOE FLOWER A reader writes to ask: What about personal responsibility? “I see no movement afoot to require the public to accept or meet norms of behavior that would reduce the need for medical...
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Not Such a Bitter Pill
By Kevin J. Rogers Whenever I think about health care reform, I am reminded of the song from the film Marry Poppins that goes “Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” You would think from...
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The Data Diet: How I Lost 60 Pounds Using A Google Docs Spreadsheet
By Paul Smalera The author in early 2010 and mid 2011 I’ve been thinking about how to write this story for a long time. Should it be a book? A blog? A self-help guide? Ever since I realized I’d lost 60...
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The Affordable Care Act and the Death of Personal Responsibility
By Vik Khanna I was a chubby kid, which brought with it all manner of slights, both real and imagined. My predicament was worsened because I came from an immigrant family, and my father was tormented...
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The Samurai Physician’s Teachings on the Way of Health
By Country Doctor Every now and then the title of a book influences your thinking even before you read the first page. That was the case for me with Thomas Moore’s “Care of the Soul” and with “Shadow...
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My Personal Affordable Care Act–A Manifesto
By Vik Khanna The Founding Fathers had one. Karl Marx had one. Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein had one. And, now I have one: a manifesto, declaring my intent to live my life with as little...
View ArticleShould Health Consumers Be Paid for Performance Too?
By MICHELLE SNYDER Meaningful Use and Pay for Performance – two of the most talked about programs in healthcare IT over the past several years. They are both based on the premise that if you want to...
View ArticleAsk Not What Your Government Can Do For You: JFK Speaks to Us About Health
By VIK KHANNA and GENERAL HEALTHY President Obama has spent a lot of time defending his health law, but he appears to us to be quite ill-equipped to actually talk about health. In fact, it’s the just...
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Shared Responsibility in the Affordable Care Act
By DRANOVE AND GARTHWAITE Recently we wrote that it was well past time to end the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act. In light of some commentary, we thought it best to revisit this issue in...
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How Many Diseases Does It Take?
By MARYA ZILBERBERG, MD It is not a secret that I dislike tobacco companies. Intensely. I do not see the point of allowing them to sell a product whose value is all in the negative. I am appalled that...
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What About Personal Responsibility?
By JOE FLOWER A reader writes to ask: What about personal responsibility? “I see no movement afoot to require the public to accept or meet norms of behavior that would reduce the need for medical...
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Not Such a Bitter Pill
By Kevin J. Rogers Whenever I think about health care reform, I am reminded of the song from the film Marry Poppins that goes “Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” You would think from...
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The Data Diet: How I Lost 60 Pounds Using A Google Docs Spreadsheet
By Paul Smalera The author in early 2010 and mid 2011 I’ve been thinking about how to write this story for a long time. Should it be a book? A blog? A self-help guide? Ever since I realized I’d lost 60...
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The Affordable Care Act and the Death of Personal Responsibility
By Vik Khanna I was a chubby kid, which brought with it all manner of slights, both real and imagined. My predicament was worsened because I came from an immigrant family, and my father was tormented...
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The Samurai Physician’s Teachings on the Way of Health
By Country Doctor Every now and then the title of a book influences your thinking even before you read the first page. That was the case for me with Thomas Moore’s “Care of the Soul” and with “Shadow...
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My Personal Affordable Care Act–A Manifesto
By Vik Khanna The Founding Fathers had one. Karl Marx had one. Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein had one. And, now I have one: a manifesto, declaring my intent to live my life with as little...
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Should Health Consumers Be Paid for Performance Too?
By MICHELLE SNYDER Meaningful Use and Pay for Performance – two of the most talked about programs in healthcare IT over the past several years. They are both based on the premise that if you want to...
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Ask Not What Your Government Can Do For You: JFK Speaks to Us About Health
By VIK KHANNA and GENERAL HEALTHY President Obama has spent a lot of time defending his health law, but he appears to us to be quite ill-equipped to actually talk about health. In fact, it’s the just...
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