Anyone over the age of 30 has lived through a rather profound shift in federal priorities. A half-century ago, defense…
Last week the Trump administration announced it will allow states to impose a “community engagement” requirement on healthy adults getting…
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that states could experiment with work requirements and volunteer community…
An aphorism much favored by my fellow dipsomaniacs goes thus: “Dogs are smarter than people. A dog won’t eat or…
When the Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis advised the President to declare a national emergency to…
Health care snatches the same portion of our purses as income taxes did in 1981 when Ronald Reagan famously slashed…
It’s no grand revelation that Republicans have bungled the Obamacare repeal bill beyond belief. Senator Mitch McConnell wants a Senate…
As a physician, I treat Medicaid patients in New York City. Perhaps to your surprise, I can say with assurance…
All Democrats and an odd coalition of very moderate and very conservative Republican Congressmen in effect voted that Obamacare was…
Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposed “American Health Care Act” (a.k.a. RINOcare) got a bit of a makeover on Monday. Now the…
