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Wrong Solution By The Wrong People In the Wrong Way At The Wrong Time

July 3, 2008

Analysis of:AMA meeting: Delegates decry CMS no-pay list as unrealistic and call for revision | www.ama-assn.org

Somehow, healthcare, energy, education....in fact nearly every major issue today has turned into a contentious "them vs. us". It would always be preferable that reasonable men attempt to reach a reasonable conclusion, but government bodies today (eg., politicians and key administrators) are NEVER reasonable....certainly authoritarian, typically dictatorial, and always overreaching their authority. Most of the people setting rules at CMS are bureaucrats who even if they mean well in attempting to control healthcare costs are nothing more than myopic statisticians who rely almost exclusively on numbers and computer models to drive policy, rather than knowledge of healthcare, common sense, awareness of policy effect on the sector, and God forbid, the facts. Not that the medical community are saints, but more is deserved here than driving a square peg into a round hole.

Industry Police Thyself - Or Else

March 27, 2008

Analysis of:Are rising credit card interchange fees hurting ATM usage? | www.atmmarketplace.com

Hurting ATM usage, or not, by adjusting fees is the least of our problems. The problem is Washington and the Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008.

No End To The Madness

March 20, 2008

Analysis of:House Moves Closer to Mental Health Bill | online.wsj.com

Mental health is undoubtedly a most important issue, but this is another instance of being backdoored into national healthcare.

The Question "Can Health Plans Control Medical Costs" is antithetical...

March 17, 2008

Analysis of:Health insurers take a dive on WellPoint's warning | www.marketwatch.com

Health plans [insurers] cannot control healthcare costs: (1) it is not their role and purpose (2) they are not providers of medical services (3) they are subject to, and operate in, a mature market, and (4) they have been neutered by regulation and politics.

Be Careful What You Wish For

February 25, 2008

Analysis of:Forget India; Call Centers Boom in Caribbean | abcnews.go.com

The Caribbean Basin offers a variety of benefits and opportunities for business, but it is far from the panacea for outsourcing. Only those who are first to act may benefit, and even then not without some problems.

Offshoring clinical trials...damned if you do, damned if you don't!

February 11, 2008

Analysis of:New lease on life? The ethics of offshoring clinical trials | www.ft.com

Pharmaceutical companies have an option. They can continue to endure increaingly higher costs, rigid regulatory pressures, and hostile special interests, or they can explore new alternatives that will allow them meet their mission and realize a reasonable retrun on investment. Which would you choose?

You CanPut A Tuxedo On A Pig....

August 13, 2007

Analysis of:Employers Turn To Alternative For Insuring Staff | online.wsj.com

Countless attempts have been made over the 30 years I have been in the healthcare business to address escalating benefit costs. Thus far none of them has worked, at least not on any realistic scale, including several options my own company developed. Liberals want national healthcare because they think medicine controlled by government will remedy the problem....I contend that government is already the problem (at least in the sense that they inhibit the private market). If government would simply get out of the way, Mr. Pilzer would be free to apply his entrepreneurial talents elsewhere....perhaps in finding a way to get government to do something other than trying to run healthcare.

Like Anything Else - Caveat Emptor

August 13, 2007

Analysis of:Will Outsourcing Fly? | www.cfoasia.com

The three principles for success in outsourcing are: due diligence, due diligence, and due diligence.

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