Archives By Month: June 2011
TAX/SPEND/REGULATE vs LIBERTY/FREEDOM
Between a TSR senator and a Liberty/Freedom Senator Senator LF (Liberty/Freedom): Now that Obama Care has been implemented, and I understand you voted for it, do you still feel that you have advanced the freedom of the American People? Senator TSR (Tax/Spend/Regulate): Senator, you have couched your question in a self- incriminating manner. I should […]
TAX/SPEND/REGULATE vs LIBERTY/FREEDOM
Between a TSR senator and a Liberty/Freedom Senator Senator LF (Liberty/Freedom): Now that Obama Care has been implemented, and I understand you voted for it, do you still feel that you have advanced the freedom of the American People? Senator TSR (Tax/Spend/Regulate): Senator, you have couched your question in a self- incriminating manner. I should […]
TAX/SPEND/REGULATE vs LIBERTY/FREEDOM
Between a TSR senator and a Liberty/Freedom Senator Senator LF (Liberty/Freedom): You have given doctors the legal right to extinguish the life of their patients. Are you pleased? Senator TSR (Tax/Spend/Regulate): Certainly. Isn’t that the humanitarian thing to do? Senator LF: To give anyone that right is not protecting the poor and disadvantaged. Senator TSR: […]
The Regulation of Doctors
Senator George: It appears that our regulation of Doctors, Hospitals, and Insurance companies has not reduced health care costs. What are we missing? Senator James: You suppose we are over regulating? Senator Franklin: We should be able to proceed on our present course and eventually reach the point where the goose no longer can lay […]
Making health care free
Senator George: There is an increasing push to make health care Free-For-All! Senator James: Why is this discussion even coming up? Isn’t health care the most expensive item in our budget? Senator Franklin: Because of the liability of huge cost that Americans can’t pay. Senator George: Insurance should be focused on covering those huge rare […]
Hospitals taking over private practices
by Manoj Jain, MD, MPH A decade and a half ago, when I moved to Memphis, I proudly hung a sign outside an office I shared with another doctor. It had my name followed by an MD. I had started my own small business as a solo practitioner in medicine. Over the years, the practice […]
Misdirection in our Country at Large
Occupy Wall Street By Dr. Thomas Sowell The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama’s America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of […]
Atlas Shrugged Part II
Atlas Shrugged’ Film Banks on Election Fever By DON STEINBERG, WSJ To a strict bottom-line capitalist, the new movie “Atlas Shrugged Part II” might not look like a model enterprise. “Atlas Shrugged Part I,” released last year, cost businessman John Aglialoro about $25 million (and 19 years) to bring to the screen. Its domestic box-office […]
Modernization can at times be very expensive and misdirected
I served my internship at Wayne County General Hospital. We were the first class of 36 interns to work in the new 500 bed orange and silver aluminum hospital in the form of a Grecian cross-a square center with four arms of equal length. The old hospital had the standard characteristic large 40 to 60 […]
Modernization can at times be very expensive and misdirected
In the 1980s, Dr. Eugene Robin, a Research Pulmonologist at Stanford, had a weekly column in the San Francisco Examiner. Having had a very distinguished career writing research papers, books, editing journals, chairing international symposia, he thought he’d try his hand in the popular press. In this column, he explored numerous areas of medicine for […]