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The ACA and hospital readmissions: A fatal flaw of reform.
The ACA in association with the Medicare Innovation Center has pledged $10 Billion to finance programs designed to improve health care...


The ACA to the rescue says the Washington Post! Really?
A recent Washington Post editorial (12/19/14, “Obama deserves some credit for the good news about health care.”) praised aspects of the...


Time to call a specialist when you are very sick? Maybe not.
We live in a specialized society. The percentage of doctors training in and practicing specialized medicine has exploded, while the...


A better flu shot for the elderly? High dose flu vaccine as a breakthrough. Or not?
Should high dose flu shots be used in the elderly? The New York Times said it best, mirroring the chorus of praise in the press after a...


Should hospitals be part of the solution?
Recently someone shared with me a copy of an article written in the August 11th issue of Business Insider by Brett Logiurato titled “An...


Is Diabetes really an epidemic, or is it something more?
The Washington Post on November 21 enclosed a full section highlighting the diabetic epidemic, citing that in 1958 1.6 million people in...


All Giddy about Cholesterol
Three studies presented at the recent American Heart Association annual meeting deserve our attention. The first studied Vytorin (10mg...


Medicare's Quality Indicators and the reduction of quality geriatric care
What are quality indicators? Essentially Medicare and the ACA are attempting to assure that we doctors practice quality medicine, and...
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