Tag Archives: free market healthcare
Medical Pricing Cartels Create Wide Variation in Costs (Part II)
By Ralph Weber, REBC, GBA, CFP, CLU, ChFC, AEP See Medical Pricing Cartels Create Wide Variation in Costs (Part I) here. PPOs operate like cartels which are shrouded in secrecy. Insurance companies execute proprietary secret contracts with their PPO network …
Who Really Benefits from the ACA?
In the 10 minute waiting area at BNA, I watched as a hugely obese woman came from the baggage area to the car next to me, on an electric wheel chair, some costing as much as $9000. With one hand, …
The Second Edition of the MediCrats Book Has JUST Been Released!
With the preface by John Goodman PhD, and the foreword by Lee Kurisko MD, This easy to read book will help you to understand much of the waste in health care, and what to do about it. Just click right here to find …
Tennessee Doctor Rejects Patient
Would you give a total stranger your social security number, your driver’s license, date of birth and insurance information? That’s what you’re doing when you go to any Tennessee doctor’s office. My answer, when they ask, “Honey, if you don’t …
Yoga – Not to be Under Estimated
by Lee Kurisko, MD When I was much younger, my weightlifting buddies and I used to laugh at yoga. When things were tough in a workout, I remember joking that, “Maybe we should take up yoga instead!” The implication was …
The Obamacare Revolt: Physicians Fight Back
Dr. Ryan Neuhofel, 31, offers a rare glimpse at what it would be like to go to the doctor without massive government interference in health care. Dr. Neuhofel, based in the college town of Lawrence, Kansas, charges for his services …
Medicaid is a tax on the estates of the poor
by Jane Orient, MD Most people think they’re exempt from the estate tax (often called the “death tax”) because they don’t have $2 million. A lot of people with low incomes do have some assets, however, and if they have …
The Pimple and the Cancer
by G. Keith Smith, MD A fellow physician told me recently that he had seen a worker’s compensation patient who had been treated and released by another surgeon for a wrist fracture. He was now in my friend’s office complaining …
Obamacare ‘savings’ are an expensive joke
by Lee Hieb, MD I don’t own a television, but when I travel I get my dose of boob-tube popular culture and the 24-hour news cycle. This week I was amused to hear the shrill voices on multiple news channels …
When it Comes to Getting Strong and Fit, Weightlifting is Over-Rated
by Lee Kurisko, MD So there, after all of these years as a hard-core weights guy, I have uttered the unspeakable. For more than four decades, I lifted weights with the primary intent of lifting as heavy as possible. Indeed, …
