The New (Ab)normal in Health Care Dysfunction May 06, 2019 Introduction: The Issues Ignored by Discusisons of Health Care Reform After the failed attempt to "repeal and replace" the Afforda...
Another Missing Link Discovered: 1969 IRS Rule Change Allowed US Hospitals to Discriminate Among Patients Based on Ability to Pay March 07, 2019 Prelude: the Suits in the Elevator Another long night on call of my interniship was over. Having managed to wolf down breakfast and brush m...
How Stupid Do They Think We Are? - Plutocrats Using Logical Fallacies to Defend the Health Care Status Quo February 14, 2019 In the early 21st century, the debate about health care reform in the US ramped up. The result ultimately was the Patient Protection and Af...
Return of the Anechoic Effect - Rest in Peace, Health Wonk Review January 18, 2019 Introduction: Blogging About Taboo Topics in Health Care We started Health Care Renewal in 2004 to discuss the causes of health care dysfunc...
The Demise of the Trump Foundation, an Extreme Example of Elite "Do-Gooding" to Prop Up the "Broken System" that Benefits Them December 22, 2018 Big foundations often claim that they are out to improve society. For example, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation claims to be the nation’s...
Fake Reform Foisted on Us by Those who Benefit Most from the Current Dysfunction September 05, 2018 Introduction - No Funding for You To better understand health care dysfunction, I interviewed doctors and health professionals, and publishe...
Michael Fine's Health Care Revolt September 03, 2018 Michael Fine, M.D., HealthCare Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy – All at the Same Time (Oaklan...
The Ultimate Version of Ill-Informed Health Care Leadership: Dumb, Incoherent, Confused, Perhaps Psychotic Things President Trump Says and Does About Health Care Policy October 29, 2017 The controversy over the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare," still goes on in the US. The ACA, which is still the law of the la...
The Ultimate Version of Ill-Informed Health Care Leadership: Dumb, Incoherent, Confused, Perhaps Psychotic Things President Trump Says and Does About Health Care Policy October 29, 2017 The controversy over the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare," still goes on in the US. The ACA, which is still the law of the la...
More Dumb Things Leaders Say About Health Policy September 22, 2017 These days, legislative efforts to change US health care, especially to "reform and replace" the Affordable Care Act [ACA or ...
More Dumb Things Leaders Say About Health Policy September 22, 2017 These days, legislative efforts to change US health care, especially to "reform and replace" the Affordable Care Act [ACA or ...
What the US "Health Care Reform" Debate Did Not Address July 31, 2017 It looks like the bizarre process in the US Senate ostensibly to "repeal and replace Obamacare" (aka the Affordable Care Act, or A...
What the US "Health Care Reform" Debate Did Not Address July 31, 2017 It looks like the bizarre process in the US Senate ostensibly to "repeal and replace Obamacare" (aka the Affordable Care Act, or A...
More Dumb Things Politicians and Political Appointees Say About Health Policy July 07, 2017 As we previously discussed, the fierce debate about whether to revise, or "repeal and replace Obamacare", more formally, the Affor...
More Dumb Things Politicians and Political Appointees Say About Health Policy July 07, 2017 As we previously discussed , the fierce debate about whether to revise, or "repeal and replace Obamacare", more formally, the Affo...
Follow the Money: Non-Profit Hospital CEOs Quietly Collect Their Millions While US Health Care Reform Battle Rages June 22, 2017 In Washington, DC the health care policy wars continue, with a few Republican senators working behind closed doors on a bill to "repeal...
Follow the Money: Non-Profit Hospital CEOs Quietly Collect Their Millions While US Health Care Reform Battle Rages June 22, 2017 In Washington, DC the health care policy wars continue, with a few Republican senators working behind closed doors on a bill to "repeal...
Evidence-Based Policy Making? - Dumb Things Politicians Say About Health Care Policy May 23, 2017 There have been multiple legislative attempts at major health care reform in the US. Typically, such attempts feature considerable public d...
Evidence-Based Policy Making? - Dumb Things Politicians Say About Health Care Policy May 23, 2017 There have been multiple legislative attempts at major health care reform in the US. Typically, such attempts feature considerable public d...