Op Success, Patient Died

“The Operation Was a Success, But the Patient Died” (and here’s a bill for $50,000)  Today the Clinton Administration announced it would convene a task force to investigate ways to decrease the 100,000 deaths annually from medical mistakes. The television news reports...

Future of Health Care

The Future of Health Care in America By JC Smith, DC  While lobbying during the NCLC on Capitol Hill, I had an interesting exchange with Sen. Max Cleland’s health aide, Tamara Jones, PhD. This intelligent woman was unlike most of the Congressional aides we met who...

Outrage

Is Capitalism the Cause of the Healthcare Problem? Outrage By JCS I’m enjoying the escalating public outrage over the greed of Wall Street capitalist pigs. It reminds me of my collegiate days at Berkeley in the ‘60s when the protests against the Vietnam war gained...

Ounce of Prevention

Ounce of Prevention By JCS If this reform accomplishes anything, hopefully it will end the stranglehold on healthcare by the medical profession. For too long the present American healthcare system emphasizes the “pound of cure” rather than the “ounce of prevention” or...

NPR Letter

TO:  Blake Farmer, NPR reporter RE: Military Pokes Holes In Acupuncture Skeptics’ Theory Dear Blake: I must protest this article. When I first heard it while driving to work, I was stunned and after a week of thought, I am furious about this blatantly one-sided...