My chosen profession has been under attack (literally) my entire professional life. The year I took the Florida Bar (1987), President George Herbert Walker Bush declared war on “tassled loafed lawyers” as he pushed for tort reform sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and other business and special interest organizations. His son, Jeb Bush, later […]
CBO Report on Senate Bill: 22M Lose Insurance
Not just mentally tough. How Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s Workout Almost Broke Me
On this blog, I focus on what most of my clients have in common – the need for serious medical care and the attendant expenses. I often blog about Quality Fraud and share news items about how the cost of healthcare is driven by misrepresentations made in the course of providing care. Unlike other markets, […]
Medical Loss Ratios (MLR’s) are designed to lower healthcare costs. Here is how they work. In a recent Federal Court ruling, a Court found that physician settlement payments may be included in the MLR for the carrier. CMS Page on Medical Loss Rule (MLR)
In one-quarter of the country, girls born today may live shorter lives than their mothers, and the country as a whole is falling behind other industrialized nations in the march toward longer life, according to a study just released by the Institute for Health Metrics. Life expectancy by county in the U.S. varies as much as […]
President Eisenhower created Law Day in the United States for the first day of May. This year, the American Bar Association has chosen the theme of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution – the most cited and litigated provision in our Constitution. Passed in 1868 after the Civil War, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the freeing […]
The 14th Amendment: Transforming American Democracy
Healthnet and Indiana University Settle $18M Quality Fraud Case
What will your medical care look like when the time comes? Inequality In American Health Care: The Lancet
