The Medicine Man, with Michael Arnold Glueck, M.D.

Who Pays the Medical Malpractice Premiums Under Reform?

2009-09-07T20:00:52Z

In a recent column your Medicine Man noted that President Obama has asked many in the country to sacrifice in order to assist the government in controlling healthcare costs.

Not surprisingly there was one group from whom he asked nothing. His fellow lawyers, and especially those trial lawyers for whom medical malpractice suits are less about justice than about extortion.

Will Health Care Reform Establish a Right to Health Care? — Well, Not Exactly!

2009-09-02T19:25:08Z

It is argued that everybody in a country with "universal health care" has a "right" to health care.

Thus there is a MYTH that "Health care reform" is supposed to correct a moral deficiency in the United States and therefore at long last grant fundamental human rights to Americans. So discerns Jane Orient M.D.,Executive Director of The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, in a recent AAPS release.

Nationalized medicine will not reduce medical errors and save lives

2009-08-23T00:50:26Z

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has been claiming for almost a decade that as many as 98,000 Americans are killed by medical errors every year. This is based on 173 deaths in the Harvard Medical Practice study and extrapolating to the entire U.S. population.

Nationalized medicine will not reduce medical errors and save lives

2009-08-23T00:47:42Z

We Don't Have to Choose Between the ‘Status Quo’ and the Democrats' ‘Reform’ Plan — An Alternate Better Plan

2009-08-11T22:12:27Z

Many readers correctly have made the point that criticism of the Obama health bill should be accompanied by suggestions for an alternate or better plan. While this writer does not expect you to read the entire 1,018 pages of HR 3200 he asks Whether you think the following 775 word plan might be more palatable.

House bill would destroy private insurance and private medicine —The Truth and Consequences

2009-08-02T04:36:00Z

Can you handle the truth? I Can you bear to read about what Obama has in mind?

SOME OPPRESSIVE MEASURES
Obama promised that you could keep your health plan—but the "tri-committee" House bill, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009" (H.R. 3200), assures that this will not be possible. Unless your plan can survive without a single new customer.

Time to say goodby to AMA — for a few dollars they sold out patients

2009-07-21T04:28:00Z

It may be over soon — our medical system once the envy of the world — will give way to the national transition to a socialistic society. The one group that should have stood up to the Obama healthcare plan has thrown in the towel.

Before being personally bombarded for my views let me say that I am a retired physician and have no financial interests in nor do I make a penny from the medical system. But I do have a sacred interest in my own health and that of my family and of others in this country.

Proposed Healthcare Plan Obama Asks for ‘Sacriifice’ from Everyone but the Trial Lawyers — Without Tort Reform any plan will fail

2009-07-18T04:38:00Z

Although currently less discussed — than it should be — no new liberal healthcare plan will succeed and cut costs without some type of tort reform. The President doesn't want to put this issue on the examining table for debate.

Obama's Delusional Health Plan — Rescuing the economy by reforming health care?

2009-03-07T04:44:00Z

In his State of the Union message, Barack Obama blamed the "crushing" cost of medical care for contributing to bankruptcies and foreclosures, and said it had all but stymied growth among small businesses.

Medical Humor Or is it? Massachusetts resorts to patient group visits with the doctor

2008-12-13T04:56:00Z

At times this writer has attempted to scribe humorous or satirical medical-legal columns. However, the following is really true, as substantiated by a release from The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which noted that Massachusetts is now resorting to patient group visits with physicians.