Despite the consensus of most court experts and prediction markets, the Supreme Court has upheld, rather than struck down, the individual mandate; will this impact our reliance on expert judgement in the future? I doubt it. By now, a wealth of literature has accumulated highlighting that in many (but...
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The reality of today’s funding environment for digital health entrepreneurs is that it’s traditional tech investors who have the lion’s share of the money, while most long-time healthcare investors are on the ropes, contending with fleeing LPs and at least the perception of disappointing returns. While...
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Monday’s WSJ (online now) features an exceptionally important and courageous op-ed by Harvard professor (and frequent co-author of mine, although not in this case) Tom Stossel, discussing a rule within recently enacted healthcare legislation with the Orwellian title, “The Physician Payment Sunshine Act...
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Perhaps the best outcome from Michele Bachmann’s misinformed assertion that vaccinations cause mental retardation has been the almost immediate outpouring of intelligent writing on the topic – I would call particular attention to: - This WSJ editorial - This Bloomberg editorial - This observant commentary...
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Thu, Sep 15 2011
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You probably want your doctor to care about people, but how much do you want her to care about all of them? That’s the question I ask when I read articles – generally by bioethicists, often respectable ones – asserting that one of the moral responsibilities of physicians is to be responsible stewards...
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