Proof of Death:
Recently a fellow physician friend of mine wrote to let me know that the only thing wrong with my writing is my occasional use of foul-mouthed language. Now, I very much appreciate our friendship, and
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Poor Martin Shkreli. His last name aside (and I thought mine was bad), the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals just cannot catch a break. These days everyone it seems – HIV patients, politicians, even a group of witches – have
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Tweet Share Last month House Bill 767, that would have required electrocardiogram (ECG) screenings in Texas students participating in UIL athletic activities, was passed by the Texas House and sent to the Senate for consideration. Today, five Republican Senators
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Tweet Share Last week, the Texas House of Representatives Public Education Committee voted unanimously to pass a bill requiring students to undergo EKG screenings before participating in UIL events, The bill leaves the burden of paying for
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Tweet Share A couple of weeks ago I got tickets to be a part of the audience for the Glenn Beck TV show, and let me say that I got a lot more than I
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Share Tweet Recently I searched YouTube for “health insurance,” and this video popped up near the top of the list. Meet Joe Simonds (rhymes with diamonds): author, digital marketing maverick, and guru of the Retirement Think Tank.
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Jonathan Gruber is an MIT Economist who was paid $400,000 for his help in designing ObamaCare. Recently, a couple of videos were posted of him calling American voters “stupid.” This isn’t the first time he’s
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Sara Horowitz is a “genius.” Oh, don’t take my word for it; she was awarded that title, as well as a grant, by the MacArthur Foundation in 1999. She’s received all kinds of awards and
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Ahhhh, marketing. A good definition of marketing can be found at Wikipedia: “the process of communicating the value of a product or service to customers, for the purpose of selling that product or service.” Actually
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To pay, or not to pay… I’ll admit it, I’ve never been great with math. Except for subtracting from my bank account, as my CPA likes to remind me. But I am pretty fair at
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Affordable health insurance?!? In keeping with the Texas educators theme, last fall I spoke with a local high school teacher who told me that she and her high school coach husband were paying $1,540 a
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Last post I detailed the enormous amount a woman was charged at a Dallas ER for a simple cough. Costs? Hardly. It’s all about them charges. In fact, a more accurate description would be
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“They bought it.” – Ferris Bueller, 1986 In my last post I reviewed several reasons commonly used to explain the high costs of health care, and how they are all untrue. As I’ve said before,
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Last time I posted a receipt from my birth in 1968. The following is an excerpt from my planned book,Your Money AND Your Life: American Healthcareonomics. “I was born on Saturday, October 12, 1968, at Harris Methodist
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Here’s the full receipt from my birth on October 12, 1968: Do you have yours? If so, find it and stay tuned… It’s not the COSTS of health care that are outrageous…it’s the
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