Policy & Ethics

“Patients have long been aware that many unseen dollars drive medical decisions and events.”   Introduction

Medical bills are difficult to understand that makes pricing transparency an impossible dream. Here is a common sense guide to understanding these bills, especially for the uninitiated or those that see them only occasionally.

If your only source for news are the idiots at Mother Jones or the even bigger idiots at Sourcewatch, you probably don't know much about the real American Council on Science and Health.

The US House of Representatives, in its quest to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), has included in its effort a proposal to "defund" Planned Parenthood.

Physicians give advice. That’s what we do.

Dear Hollywood:

A young man who received a lung transplant four weeks ago following a terrible case of pneumonia that caused his lungs to collapse has died.

Several years after the ACA ("Obamacare") passed, healthcare costs continue to rise in America.

I was fortunate to attend and discuss health policy for veterans at the 2017 Yale-West Point Civil-Military Service Symposium.

The IARC monograph program on Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks must be reformed and brought into the 21st century – or it should be abolished