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Does Healthcare really need more money??

March 6, 2009

Analysis of:Obama Puts Health Care Reform at Heart of Budget. | www.google.com

The assumption that more money is needed for healthcare is not realistic. Our country spends over 2 trillion dollars on healthcare. Why do we need to spend more?

Statins for Kids! It's gone too far !!!

July 10, 2008

Analysis of:8-Year-Olds on Statins? A New Plan Quickly Bites Back | www.nytimes.com

While statins have been proven to lower cholesterol, the absolute numbers of prevented deaths or myocardial infarctions has been poor, with the NNT (number needed to treat) at between 50-100, depending upon whom you ask.

Why not end capitation and switch to retainer fees?

January 28, 2008

Analysis of:New therapy for old woes, Blue Cross measure aims to slow runaway costs, improve quality of healthcare | www.boston.com

Retainer fees for physicians would decrease the do more get paid more paradigm that insurers complain about.

Trying to make more profits off the uninsured! Just adding to the problem!

January 14, 2008

Analysis of:The New Insurance Frontier | www.healthleadersmedia.com

While I applaud the insurance industry for touting coverage for prevention focused care, does not insurance just add to the cost with the increased administrative burdens associated with insurance policies? A solution would be for the insurance industry to get their good name back and go back to the ways of the past.

Universal Health Coverage by Federal Government- A Big Mistake

November 8, 2007

Analysis of:Universal Health Coverage Attracts New Support | www.washingtonpost.com

There has been a lot of press about Universal Health Coverage as a Federal Mandate. Giving power to any government entity of this system becomes a political pawn game and will ultimately doom the system. Requiring people who choose not to purchase healthcare insurance to buy it is not the way a society that embraces freedom and individual responsibility should act.

Doctors Making Housecalls- Free Market Medical Care at its Best!

September 24, 2007

Analysis of:The New York Times | www.nytimes.com

It is medical care in the free market system. The key to this system is no insurance intereference in the care of the patient. Reduces overhead and administrative costs.

Why do we believe that cholesterol lowering is beneficial?

September 10, 2007

Analysis of:Astrazeneca Announces First Patient Enrolled In Head-To-Head Comparison Of CRESTOR/Ezetimibe With SIMVASTATIN/Ezetimibe | www.medicalnewstoday.com

Physicians brainwashed on cholesterol lowering. Physicians happy to hear that Crestor, the most potent LDL lowering statin to be paired with zetia.

Health Insurers lighting a fuse on their own destruction

September 3, 2007

Analysis of:Health Insurers Mull Costs, Future of Medicare | www.thestreet.com

Healthcare costs are not sustainable in todays market. The solution is not more government or insurance industry management, which caused the problem in the first place. Present day access to healthcare is leveraged and is being setup for a big fall and government takeover which would be terrible for a country that has had the best healthcare advances of any in the world.

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