Opinion
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Pediatric Testing Requirement Would Be Wrong Medicine
Opinion -If you’ve filled a prescription recently, you may have had a nasty surprise. Antibiotics or a tube of steroid cream used to cost a few bucks, but now the prices are soaring. -
Medical Liability Reform: A Physician’s Perspective
Opinion -With the resurgence of the medical liability crisis, a review of tort reform efforts over the past several years is in order. -
How to Tame Your Health Care Costs
Opinion -Want to know the best way to dramatically reduce your health care costs over your lifetime? Choose healthy parents. -
01/2003 State Legislative Update
Opinion -ARKANSAS Governor Mike Huckabee (R) recently proposed increasing the state sales tax by five-eighths of 1 percent to pay for Medicaid. -
Generic Drugs
Opinion -The cost of that prescription drug you take may be going down soon. -
Buyer Beware
Opinion -People take a lot of risk buying prescriptions over the Internet. While Canada seems to be where the action is, Americans are also buying re-imported drugs from Mexico, Israel, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and China, to name a few. -
Long-Term Care
Opinion -Unless there’s a shift in the U.S. to a long-term care system based predominantly on private insurance, government-run health plans like Medicare and Medicaid will require increased public taxation and the rationing of medical services to seniors. -
MSAs Are Not FSAs Are Not HRAs
Opinion -Faced with alarming increases in health care costs, employers are turning to consumer-driven health plans to help rein in expenditures. -
Senior Citizens Shorted on Health Care
Opinion -Congressional scandals come in two varieties. One involves criminality, malfeasance, dark and secret things. The other involves what they do legally--right out in the open--not caring much who notices or complains. -
01/2003 The Galen Report
Opinion -It’s already clear congressional and White House leaders really meant it when they promised health care issues will be a top priority in the 108th Congress. -
Single Payer
Opinion -The nature of a lie is such that if you repeat it enough it takes on a life of its own, always at the expense of truth. So it is with lies spoken in defense of single-payer health care, also known as national health care. -
Heavy Duty
Opinion -Obesity has certainly been in the news lately, with reports from everywhere proving Americans are getting fatter and fatter. -
This Is Nutty
Opinion -The Food and Drug Administration says nuts may help lower elevated cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease. Most of the evidence comes from large population studies. Though nuts are high in fat, it’s the unsaturated and beneficial kind. -
Good Bye Vioxx
Opinion -Here are some simple non-prescription lifestyle choices to help you live with arthritis without Vioxx. Lose weight: The more you weigh, the more stress you put on your joints. Lose as little as 11 pounds to reduce joint pain. -
Faria Appointed to CDC Committee
Opinion -Dr. Miguel A. Faria Jr. -
Canadian Doctors Burnout
Opinion -The Canadian Medical Association says a new study shows an alarming number of Canadian doctors are so exhausted, cynical, and stressed out that they suffer from advanced stages of burnout. Canadian Dr. -
Fat Camp Is Over
Opinion -Kids who went to “fat camp” during the summer will regain the pounds they lost unless the parents change the lifestyle of the whole family--and that means Mom and Dad included. -
Cancer Prevention
Opinion -Most of us know there are ways to lower the risk of getting cancer, but we don’t seem to be doing much about it. -
Partnerships Offer Common-Sense Approach to Long-Term Care
Opinion -The financing of long-term care is an issue of growing concern for many Americans. The demographic make-up of our population is changing, creating a looming crisis in providing--and, most importantly, financing--long-term care services. -
Doctors Must Participate in the Health Policy Debate
Opinion -Physicians in Southern California, often a laboratory for the nation’s private and government health care reform efforts, need to take an active role in educating their patients about what’s good and what’s bad in the U.S. health care system ... -
Table: Side-by-Side Comparison of MSAs, FSAs, and HRAs
Opinion -Side-By-Side Comparison Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), and Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) MSA FSA HRA Who “owns” it? Individual/Employee. Individual/Employee. Employer. Who funds it? -
Fixing Medicaid
Opinion -One of the reasons most states struggle with balanced budgets is the escalating cost of Medicaid. Medicaid costs rose 13 percent in 2002 and by an average of 9 percent a year since 1997. -
Medicare Deform
Opinion -Attempts by politicians and bureaucrats to offer prescription drugs to Medicare enrollees has taken on the look of “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” or maybe more correctly, Pennsylvania Avenue. Whatever you call it, it’s becoming a bad horror show. -
Germ Warfare
Opinion -Most Americans are losing the battle against germs. Close to half of 1,000 people surveyed allow dust to accumulate in their vacuum cleaners for more than six months.
