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"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Broke is the definition of every aspect of American medicine today

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Regardless of whether you are for single-payer health insurance, fee for service, a hybridized French system, or the Affordable Care Act, wh...

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Why Health Care Is Broken, and How to Fix It...Hint..Medicare for All is Not the Answer

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Imagine if you went to buy a car and rather than one price for the car, you had to essentially buy it ala carte. You had to negotiate a sepa...

Monday, June 19, 2017

Can American Health Care Be Saved:

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One thing the health care debate has taught us is that American medicine today is like snowflakes. No two are the same. From the no wait ...

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Why Is American Health Care So Sick?

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We’ve all heard the old adage that what can be done, can be undone. Well maybe we need to try that with our healthcare system. In just ...

Friday, December 13, 2013

American Healthcare: Spending more is getting us less

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It’s amazing sometimes how simple ideas get lost in the big picture. Back in 1923, President Warren Harding proposed a federal department...

Monday, January 3, 2011

Deadly Spin

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Before Congress thinks about tampering with the new health care laws, they need to take a close look at what former Cigna PR Executive Wende...

Friday, November 19, 2010

Health Care...Solved

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As the past year will attest, if we wait for Washington to solve the health care crises, we could be waiting a very long time. Yet in spite...

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Jeff Schechtman: Napa, California, United States; I grew up during the Kennedy Presidency. It was a time when the best and the brightest sat center stage in the nation's psyche. I've always remembered the story, that at an arts gala at the White House, Kennedy looked around the room and proclaimed it "the greatest gathering of talent since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Without the benefit of such trappings, I've had the opportunity, for the past nineteen years, to have a seat at an international banquet of ideas and history. My radio program provided me a unique opportunity to "travel" around the world and speak to thousands of the most imaginative thinkers and leaders in the arenas of politics, religion, journalism, business, popular culture, academics, science, economics, history, and medicine. During these years, I have taken many people with me on this journey. It has been a momentous time. The trauma of politics, the onslaught of technology, the insights of science, and the changes in the human condition make this a period almost unequaled in history. I'm excited that technology has now made it possible for me to take more of you along with me on this journey.

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