Veterans' Health Care: A Solemn Promise
We have promised as a nation to honor our enormous debt to disabled veterans by providing them with the best health services that modern medicine has to offer. We need to keep …
About the Blogger
Dr. Maggie Kozel is the author of "The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine" a story of her medical career. The stories she shares illustrate the medical, economic and moral complexities of U.S. health care. To understand Dr. Kozel's ultimate decision to leave medicine is to have a better understanding of the disconnect between our marvelous medical resources, and the ways our health care system falls short of delivering them.
She graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine and went on to specialize and practice in pediatrics, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Kozel left practice after seventeen years, and is currently teaching high school chemistry in the Providence area. She is a regular contributor to Huffington Post and to Kevinmd, as well as her own site, barkingdoc.com. She lives in Jamestown, RI with her husband and daughters.
Recent Posts
Why Health Care Needs to Evolve
Imagine what health care in the United States could look like if we devised a system that was based on sound medical practice and proven cost effectiveness. What if we put our …
A Doctor’s Advice: Take Three Questions and Call Me in the Morning
Healthcare reform is a complicated subject to tackle, and unfortunately we seem to be experiencing a leadership vacuum from our elected officials just when we need them the most. Pol…
The Sunshine Provision: Raising Awareness of Marketing in the Health Care Industry
Nestled in the emerging Affordable Care Act is a groundbreaking provision that will require pharmaceutical companies and other medical industries to report all direct payments or gif…
Medicaid Cuts: A Misguided Journey Back to the Future
I spent my formative years as a pediatrician in the US Navy, and so it happened that I was a seasoned pediatrician of nearly ten years before I had my first experience with Medicaid.…
Why Cuts to Medicaid Cost Us Money
I usually write about healthcare reform from a pediatrician’s viewpoint, but what grabbed my attention recently was a story my husband, Randy, told me about an adult in his pra…
Rethinking Health Care Spending
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post on June 9, 2011. Recent attempts to fundamentally alter Medicare -- and the public outcry that followed -- provide a working te…
Healthcare Reform: Doctors Shaping the Narrative
With the roll out of the Affordable Care Act and perhaps more significantly the approach of the 2012 elections, public discussions of healthcare reform has been drowning in an alphab…
Health Care Reform: We Need to Reframe the Questions
This article appeared on HuffPost Health on March 24, 2011. One year after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the debate roars on, in Congress and everywh…
