Prepared Testimony for the EPA
All day today, the EPA is holding a public hearing for comments regarding proposals to cut carbon emissions from existing power plants.  Here is what I plan to say during my spe…
All day today, the EPA is holding a public hearing for comments regarding proposals to cut carbon emissions from existing power plants.  Here is what I plan to say during my spe…
This piece does a masterful job of concisely showing, through video evidence, of why the ACA has had a no good, very bad day.  As an advocate for the ACA, I too am guilty of re…
The policymakers we have tasked with improving our healthcare system mean well but have limited optics. I don’t blame them. Capitol Hill is a long way from the hospital bedside…
Early last week, the New York Times published Elisabeth Rosenthal’s article: “The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill: Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Exp…
“Which is more important- my Lipitor or my Lantus?” is a question I had heard in chorus of variation across my medical training.  Patients- who for any number of rea…
Like passengers on a runaway train, we cannot tear our horrified eyes away from the approaching edge of the so-called “fiscal cliff,” drastic, across the board funding cu…
A reoccurring idea among some politicians of late in the fiscal cliff negotiations is to raise the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. The argument, at first glance, seems simple…
Tracing our history back to the Revolutionary War and the drafting and adoption of our Constitution, there has always been a tension of ideas resulting in a vigorous debate.  Ou…
In the United States in 2012: Annual health care costs: $2.7 trillion Percent of healthcare costs linked to individual behaviors: 70% Cost of tobacco, alcohol, soda, illicit drugs…
As a presidential election looms and the American economy struggles to recover, the spiraling costs of healthcare have become a contentious political focal point without an obvious s…