How Should We Pay For Health Care In the U.S.?
The national debate continues to be a contentious one regarding just how we will pay for universal health care. What seems clear is that at current costs, it will be…
Read moreThe national debate continues to be a contentious one regarding just how we will pay for universal health care. What seems clear is that at current costs, it will be…
Read moreI finally got around to reading the “hot” article in the June 1,2009 New Yorker magazine written by Atul Gawande. The article which is entitled “The Cost Conundrum” with subtitle,…
Read moreEarlier today I wrote an entry emphasizing the simple fact that we cannot hope to come up with a satisfactory plan to make major improvements in the U.S. health care…
Read moreThe recent media frenzy surrounding the current health care debates in Washington has driven me to take a slight detour back to health care issues (I had been focusing on…
Read moreIn my last 2 entries (June 8 and June 11, 2009), I did my best to present the problem- a disconnect between what we know about preventing diabetes complications, and…
Read moreIn my last entry (June 8, 2009), I began a discussion about why, given how much we now know about preventing diabetes complications, patients still get retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, and…
Read moreLast week I had a very interesting clinic in which the first 3 patients were teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The first patient was a 16 year old boy with…
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