This may come as no surprise to many, but our country’s Social Security and Medicare funds will vanish in the near future.
The annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees report officially called “The 2008 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal [...]

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As part of the Open Letter Campaign reported here previously and after many weeks of debate, a large group of physicians have collectively identified 3 main factors behind rising healthcare costs and declining access to care in the United States:

The insurance industry’s undue authority and control over healthcare processes
Excessive and misguided government regulation
Practice of [...]

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If a simple ICU checklist can save lives and decrease the rates of catheter-related bloodstream infections up to 66%, then imagine what more sophisticated tools and technologies can do. We have a very robust and well-funded biomedical research enterprise in this country. Unfortunately, we don’t have anything equivalent to that on the delivery side. What [...]

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