July 11, 2010
Pain Clinics Close After CEO Accused of #QualityFraud
July 10, 2018
Delray Beach Joins Suit Against Big Pharma Over Opioid Crisis
Stark and Quality Fraud
On my blog, I write a lot about #QualityFraud. What this concept means to me is the inflated cost of medicine and other health care costs passed on to consumers through concealment and deception of the quality of the services we are being provided. Unlike any other industrialized country, our health care sector is opaque […]
June 7, 2018
Two in three Americans stressed over cost of health care. The poll includes responses from more than 3,400 respondents over age 18. “Given the uncertain fate of our nation’s healthcare system, it is not surprising that the majority of those adults surveyed expressed concerns about access to healthcare and costs,” APA CEO Arthur Evans Jr., […]
June 1, 2018
Unintended Consequences of Pharma-Created Opioid Crisis: He hugged her for a long moment, outside the bathroom with the missing door, head full of anxiety. He knew what awaited him on the other side of the drive. Another impossibly difficult conversation with his provider, who, scared by the rising number of opioid prescribers facing criminal prosecution, […]
National Deaf Academy: A Song For the Deaf
Beautiful senses are gone Canary in a gilded cage Singin Queens of the Stone Age, A Song For The Deaf Last week, a friend sent me an article about a recent Supreme Court case involving what constitutes a “medical malpractice case” and asked what I thought about it. Unfortunately for him, I had a lot […]
May 25, 2018
Dr. David Healy on the Thalidomide “conspiracy”.
May 8, 2018
When Insurance Interferes In Your Good Care “Last September, Kathy Halamka received a letter from her health insurance company stating that it was discontinuing coverage for her ongoing cancer care because the payer had come across research published 27 years ago suggesting that a different, less expensive treatment was better. The insurer took this action […]
May 3, 2018
#QualityFraud WaPo: Rare Disease Jackpot for Healthcare Industry and Pharma
May 2, 2018
WaPo: A Genuine Solution To Our Healthcare Problem