Imagine if the government mandated that you buy an expensive certificate to eat at a certain restaurant chain, but you quickly discovered that this chain only provided you with limited food options and didn’t hire additional chefs or waiters to c…
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Doctorcare
I have finally figured out how to apply the lessons of Obamacare to save my own sinking medical office from bankruptcy.
Under the president’s health-care law, the stated goal of which is to provide easy-to-use health insurance for everyone, you &…
Mandatory Contraception
As a practicing internist who prescribes contraception for women on a regular basis, I don’t see the current flame-throwing debate as being about religious principles or promiscuity, and certainly it isn’t about the need to save health-care…
Obamacare’s Medicaid Burden
Medicaid is burdening the states with financial liabilities of hundreds of billions of dollars. Already Obamacare is making this problem far worse through its “maintenance of effort” clause, which forbids states from tightening their eligib…
Can We Regulate Away Drug Shortages?
I have a friend who has stayed alive for several years despite a life-threatening muscle cancer because of a popular chemotherapy drug called Doxil. This summer, despite being CEO of a major biotech firm, he lost access to the drug almost overnight, an…
Helicopter Rescue
At a little after 3 p.m. on a warm October afternoon at the intersection of the FDR Drive and 34th Street, New York’s finest and bravest, and our Office of Emergency Management, came together with our top trauma center at Bellevue only a few bloc…
Missed Debating Moments on Romneycare
During this past week’s Fox News/Google Republican presidential debate, there were several “gotcha” moments. Most of them were at the expense of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, who once again did not appear as the strongest debater and once…
The Individual Mandate Is Obamacare’s Linchpin
Last week, when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Obamacare’s mandate that everyone buy health insurance is unconstitutional, it paved the way for a showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court. For the first time, the mandate was struck d…