CATEGORY: Stuff in the ‘healthcare system’ Category


Why Some Doctors Only Take Cash

How do we as a country provide affordable healthcare for those in need? This week we discuss the topic of healthcare reform.  If one presumes that the goal of the healthcare system in the United States is, or ought to[...]
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Thoughts on Changing the Healthcare System – Part 2

For a healthy medical system, we need to establish universal health care without the insurance companies, or reconstruct medical care and insurance by controlling the profits One of two health care systems is needed. 1) Establish universal health care without[...]
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How Measurement Fails Us

You can have two of the three: Low cost, Efficiency, or Quality, but not ALL three! This is a truism from the world of business management, one that applies to medicine as well as the business world—you can’t get it[...]
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Preventing the Diseases of Aging

Dr. Kathy Maupin and Brett Newcomb discuss current research being done that is focused on improving patients' quality of life and not just lengthening their lifespan, as well as the state of medical care in the US with regards to[...]
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