A Choice Environment

There is a new book out about how we make choices, The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar. In her Voices of the Family interview , she discu...

Massachusetts Health Plans - Damned if You Do and Damned if you Don't!

Yesterday Superior Court Judge Stephen Neel denied the request from six not-for-profit Massachusetts health plans to be allowed to go forwar...

Health Reform from the Ground Up - National Alliance on Mental Illness

For the past year "health reform" has meant activities on Mount Olympus (Washington DC) and the foothills (state capitals). But tr...

Can Massachusetts Control the Cost of Health Reform?

In the course of 20 years of studying and writing about health system ethics and health reform I've gotten progressively more humble abo...

April - Women with Disabilities Awareness Month

Within sex and gender health disparities, there can be another layer preventing optimal health outcomes - disabled status. Many of your pati...

Massachusetts Health Insurers Sue the State

The health reform pot is boiling over in Massachusetts! In a post three days ago I described how the Governor rejected 235 of the 274 insur...

Battle of the Bulge - Addressing the Bulge from Hibernation

So Philadelphia's weather is certainly summer-like. It enables us to shed our coats and problem solve in shedding our hibernation-induce...

Pogo Possum in Massachusetts

's Where is the matchless political philosopher Pogo Possum? We need him in Massachusetts! On Thursday Massachusetts Insurance Commissio...

Human Trafficking

Having just given the IFM lecture on approach to a patient who's been assaulted, I mentioned that we didn't have time to cover elder...

Google, Facebook, and a Suicidal Patient

A recent Washington Post article posed a fascinating ethical question about psychotherapists and the web: As his patient lay unconscious in...