The recent merger between Aetna and the managed care company US Healthcare should convince the public once and for all that managed care is a scam. The multibillion dollar deal is part of the ongoing wealth transfer from the middle class to the super wealthy. The CEO for US Healthcare is taking home $1,000,000,000(Your eyes […]

Practicing medicine has become a frustrating vocation. While physicians continue to learn new therapies and advanced surgical techniques to improve the lives of their patients, a constant drumbeat by both the government and the private sector to control costs is turning medicine from the art of healing to the art of battling byzantine bureaucracies. Meanwhile, […]

The rollout of the Affordable Care Act is one of the most dismal policy failures ever to take place at the federal level. The ACA has resulted in the cancellation of millions of existing policies and rapidly rising health insurance costs. The mostly inoperable website has become a symbol of an overly complex, unworkable law. […]