In 1984 the United States government established the Organ Transplant Act banning the selling of organ and tissue. And while arguments can be made as to the ethics of profiting off solid organs, the argument of profiting off bone marrow presents a murkier case. In an opinion piece appearing in the Sun News, George Mason [...]
In two of the better essays on healthcare, The New Yorker’s Dr. Atul Gawande and David Goldhill,via the Atlantic Monthly, portray a healthcare system dreadfully disorganized and wasteful. While this is no new discovery, each offers a different perspective (Guwande is a M.D., Goldhill a businessman), and solution.
In his trip to McAllen, Texas—a town with [...]
On my days at the clinic it’s no surprise to see a long line of people awaiting a “meeting” with the billing department. Getting sick is expensive and not everybody has great heath insurance, let alone health insurance at all. There are a lot of different groups who have a interest in seeing that those [...]
As noted in an earlier post, fee-for-service health care (a doctor’s financial incentive to order tests and conduct procedures) will be something addressed here in length. To be clear, the healthcare industry problems are layered, knotted and just messy. From what I have gathered in minimal experience, no one party is entirely at fault, solutions will require [...]
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