by John Leifer | Apr 30, 2014 | Healthcare, Healthcare reform
“Health is Priceless:” A recent article in the New York Times stated that pharmaceutical companies are employing a new rationale to justify the seemingly irrationally, exorbitant prices being charged for pharmaceuticals: “Health is priceless.” While true,...
by John Leifer | Apr 2, 2014 | Cancer, Healthcare, Healthcare reform
Who Dies From Cancer? Few things are black and white, yet when it comes to determining who will survive cancer, race may be fate. Doubt my words? The American Cancer Society described the situation succinctly: “African Americans are more likely to develop and die...
by John Leifer | Feb 17, 2014 | Healthcare, Healthcare reform
CLICK ON EACH IMAGE TO ENLARGE AND READ (select next page by using back arrow, then clicking on next page). Please let me know your thoughts. It appears that health care has been in crisis for many decades, but the pace of change has been glacial at best....
by John Leifer | Jan 21, 2014 | Healthcare, Healthcare reform
What if I told you that there was a panacea to our nation’s health care crisis? Would you burst into laughter, stop reading, or simply conclude that I could not possibly understand the complexity of issues underlying our health system’s dysfunction? After all,...
by John Leifer | Dec 6, 2013 | Healthcare, Healthcare reform
The calamitous launch of the Obamacare web-site has been an embarrassment to the administration, and a rallying cry for Republican opposition to the landmark legislation. Yet, within short-order, even detractors acknowledge that the web-site will be fixed, the...
by John Leifer | Sep 13, 2013 | Healthcare, Healthcare reform
When my friends ask me to translate the 2,000+ pages of legislation constituting the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, into a sound-byte, I stammer and stutter looking for where to begin. In the end, I tell them about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The good...
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