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The $9.2 Million Hospital Bill

When I lived in Hong Kong years ago I used to read…

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Entitlements and Estate Taxes: the Medicare Connection

I really liked Dr. David J. Gross’s letter to the Wall St.…

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PPACA Waivers: New Nonsense From John Sununu

For some reason the Boston Globe devotes its top slot on today’s…

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Will FDA Stifle Innovation in Diagnostic Software?

FDA is proposing regulation for mobile medical applications. Not a bad idea.…

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Health Care Reform in 2 Short Sentences

Foes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) made a…

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Why Do Doctors Offer Credit Cards? It Helps Them Avoid Discounting

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (When Your Doctor Sells Credit Cards) documented the…

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Diagnosing an Illness With Facebook

“How Facebook Saved My Son’s Life” -it’s hard to think of a…

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Debt Ceiling Negotiations on Health Care are Mere Cost Shifting

The US definitely seems to have weakened itself in the international sphere…

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Baseball Caps, Flip Flops and Melanoma

This isn’t a personal health and wellness blog, but as a light-skinned,…

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Maybe We Don’t Need to Train So Many Doctors

The CEOs of two academic hospitals are upset that Congress may reduce…

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