February 14, 2015 Buried on the back pages of the business sections of leading newspapers is a high stakes poker game that will soon migrate to the front page – an attempt by the newly-elected Greek government to renegotiate the terms of its recent bail out. Greece is a member of the European […]
Taxpayers Shouldn’t Have to Bail Out Financial Elite
I’ll never forget the grim visage on the face of my patient who had just lost his job of 28 years. He successfully fought back the tears as he described how he had no chance of finding another job that paid close to his previous salary level, even though he had two kids in college. […]
The Crazy Corporate Cannibalization of Health Care
Major financial interests, in their never-ending quest to plunder the middle class, have now turned their attention to health care. In fact, the for-profit HMOs (health maintenance organizations), according to a recent Wall Street Journal article, have a problem. They cannot figure out what to do with all the money they are making. Some analysts […]