Posted in Healthcare on Jun 28th, 2007
Yesterday I decided to do a little research on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program(SCHIP). The media is not much help in this area but the testimony before the Senate Committee of Finance was pretty informative. You can read the testimony here. The program is in the news because it is up for reauthorization. Some [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Jun 27th, 2007
Filmmaker Stuart Browning has a response to Michael Moore’s Sicko explaining who the insured are in America–for those of you who prefer to read a transcript rather than watch the short film, go here. Who are the Uninsured in America? Here are some of the more interesting statistical highlights on this complex problem as quoted [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Mar 6th, 2007
(2007-03-05) — Democrat presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton today decried the allegedly poor conditions, stifling bureaucracy and negligent care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and throughout the VA healthcare system, but added, “Just think how bad it would be if it weren’t a government run system.” As military patients and their spouses testified before [...]
Posted in Healthcare on Nov 23rd, 2006
Once the government is in charge, will doctors view their loss of autonomy over their practices as reason to turn compassion over the government? I think so. It is human nature to work for an incentive of some kind and to feel that one has some kind of autonomy over one’s work–that is why [...]
On this day, the Virginia Tech community reflects on the vibrant lives of the 32 students and faculty who were tragically taken from us a year ago. Through light, art, and music we pay tribute to each and every person we lost. We gather to honor our friends, colleagues, and family members. We will never forget.