Treating the Poor - No Good Deed Will Go Unpunished

Physicians and teachers are the focus of a major societal effort to reward excellence, encourage improvement, and weed out poor performers. ...

Amending the 2010 Health Care Reforms Checklist

Suggestions for Amending the 2010 Health Care Reforms Now that the teeth gnashing is on-going over proposed changes to the health care refor...

Nicholas Kristof on "Tussling Over Jesus"

Readers who have followed the controversy within the Catholic Church over the abortion done at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix to save ...

Ground Rules for the Single Payer Debate in Vermont

The national debate about health reform has been dominated by sloganeering. Polling suggests that the public does not understand the drivers...

Dr. Andrew Wakefield's Fraudulent Claims about Autism

This month the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a three part series by Brian Deer, detailing the fraud by which Dr. Andrew Wakefield ...

Physicians Treating Family Members

Randy Cohen, who writes "The Ethicist" column for the New York Times, is my ego ideal for this blog. I admire his down to earth,hu...

Recently, a number of columnists have remarked upon the lack of consistency (and in some cases, lack of precision) in how various pollsters ...

A Blog Post about Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

I just came upon this post by Paul Levy, who until recently was CEO of the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, about Harvard Pilgrim Health Car...

States are the Hotbed for Medical Ethics

On Tuesday, by voting to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), all 242 Republicans in the House of Representatives pr...

Single Payer Proposal in Vermont

On May 27, 2010 Vermont Act 128 - "An act relating to health care financing and universal access to health care in Vermont" - was...