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The Essentials: Leonard Read
FEE is happy to present the Essential series, five free ebooks collecting the key works of five great freedom philosophers: Leonard Read, Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, F.A. Hayek, and Frédéric Bastiat. In each of these compact anthologies, you will find a powerful case for liberty. But the ideas within are not mere fodder for debate. Like […]
Difficult to Measure Part I
5 Reasons Healthcare Data Is Unique and Difficult to Measure Dan LeSueur, Vice President of Client and Technical Operations Posted in Data: Quality, Management, Governance and Data Warehouse / EDW. Editor’s Note: Below are both parts one and two of our series on the uniqueness of healthcare data. Those of us who work with data tend to think in […]
Empowered physician leadership essential to transform Healthcare
Guest Commentary: Empowered physician leadership essential to drive healthcare transformation By Dr. Margaret Ferguson Last year I had the pleasure of meeting 2010 Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, who was honored for the Iraq war film “The Hurt Locker.” She was the first woman to win this award. However, during a session that I jointly hosted […]
Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part V
Lives at Risk by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick (Continued from the October 2014 HPUSA Newsletter) DO OTHER COUNTRIES THINK THEY HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER? Despite the official rhetoric, over the course of the past decade almost every European country with a national health care system has introduced market-oriented reforms […]
The Benefits of the proposal
The Benefits of HealthPlanUSA.Net Healthcare costs are reduced making it more affordable and available to all Americans, thus eliminating the uninsured concerns. Quality is increased by cutting down delays in patient care, thus decreasing unnecessary patient suffering and premature death. Spectrum of a customer market base is increased to insurance and credit providers by the […]
Understanding the future problem
The Major Future Problems in HealthCare The clarion call in the healthcare debate is to repeal Obamacare—repeal and revise. When one looks at the investment of time, energy, and lawyering spent over several years on the current rendition, which has caused a marked increase in cost, anxiety in our patients, causing a loss of a […]
Portability-Part I
Making Health Insurance Portable Special Publications | Health | by NCPA 1-30-06 One of the strange features of the U.S. health care system is that the health plan most of us have is not a plan that we chose; rather, it was selected by our employer. Even if we like our health plan, we could easily […]
Do Mammograms Save Lives?
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 […]
Douglas Farrago MD, Editor, Creator & Founder
SPEAKING HONESTLY AND OPENLY ABOUT OUR BROKEN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM The mission of Authentic Medicine is to rediscover how much the art of medicine means and allow us to reconnect to our roots once again. It is about fighting back against those things that are taking us away from the direct care of patients while still […]
Restoring Accountability in Medical Practice by Non Participation in Government Programs and Understanding the Devastating Force of Government
Medicine and Liberty – Network of Liberty Oriented Doctors, MedLib.ch/, Alphonse Crespo, MD, Executive Director and Founder Medicine & Liberty (MedLib) is an independent physician network founded in 2007, dedicated to the study and advocacy of liberty, ethics & market in medical services. – We support professional autonomy for doctors and liberty of choice for […]