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Why I voted for Obama

November 5, 2012Russell Saunders 33 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I submitted my ballot.  Because I am afflicted with a weird case of mild obsessive-compulsive disorder/anxiety, I checked and double-checked and then checked again that I had filled in the ovals by the names and… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy, politics barack obama, election 2012, mitt romney

Briefly noted — the idiocy of Paul Broun

October 5, 2012Russell Saunders 145 Comments

As I have noted, Things are Happening in my real-life life that are making attention to the blog a wee bit patchy.  However, I still have occasion to check the news and opinion sites I enjoy, and thus I came… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy, medical education embryology, house science committee, rep. paul broun

Don’t go to Bill Frist’s doctor

August 30, 2012Russell Saunders 32 Comments

Remember Bill Frist?  Heart surgeon?  Former Senate Majority Leader?  Super-genius doctor, such that he could make an authoritative diagnosis about a condition totally outside of his specialty based on videotape of a patient he did not otherwise examine?  (Except whoopsie,… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy, patient care bill frist

On profits and patient care

August 20, 2012Russell Saunders 32 Comments

The tension that exists between providing good care for patients and making a profit in the healthcare business is one of my signal preoccupations.  In our current fee-for-service model, there exists a seemingly intractable conflict between prioritizing the needs of… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy, patient care affordable care act, bill frist, hca, medicare, obamacare, rick scott

What’s the market solution?

August 9, 2012Russell Saunders 72 Comments

I find describing my political leanings difficult sometimes.  An easy answer would probably be “liberal,” since I favor a pretty robust social safety net, and am definitely to the left on most social issues.  That said, I am aware of… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy, medical ethics, patient care

Your man in the trenches

August 7, 2012Russell Saunders 67 Comments

Greetings from a medical office in Massachusetts, democracy’s laboratory! This just in: A bill that will adjust virtually every piece of the state’s health care system is now law. Gov. Deval Patrick signed the legislation Monday morning in a packed… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy deval patrick, health care cost containment bill, healthcare costs

Once more into the breach: AB 2109

July 25, 2012Russell Saunders 39 Comments

Last night I was privileged to participate in a conference call about a piece of legislation moving its way through the California state senate, AB 2109.  What made it a particular privilege was having the chance to speak with both… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy, patient care ab 2109, paul offit, richard pan, vaccines

Tod Kelly is trying to get me killed

July 13, 2012Russell Saunders 20 Comments

That is the only possible explanation for this question: I don’t know if you saw JB’s comment over on the main page, about wishing someone would do a post on what things *shouldn’t* be covered in whatever reformed HC we… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy alternative medicine, applied kinesiology, homeopathy, woo

The SCOTUS ruling from one doctor’s perspetive

June 28, 2012Russell Saunders 18 Comments

Today’s SCOTUS ruling really belongs to the lawyers, legal analysts and healthcare economists to discuss.  That’s certainly what I’ve been spending my time reading.  But since it pertains to healthcare, it seems like I should say something about the ruling.… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy aca, obamacare, scotus

When poverty is the diagnosis

June 27, 2012Russell Saunders 23 Comments

By way of Jubilee, I came across this list of healthcare principles by Tyler Cowen.  It brings to mind one of the things I considered writing about for the Inequality Symposium (but ended up cutting from my piece, as otherwise… Continue Reading →

healthcare policy healthcare costs, poverty, tyler cowen

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