On ObamaCare, Bill Is Right By Leonard Zwelling In every way, ObamaCare is crazy. What was the goal of the ACA? Essentially, it preserved the private health insurance markets, the dominance of the large pharmaceutical companies and the largest providers of health care like large hospital groups. Sure, it gained health insurance […]
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Finally, The DePinho Game Plan By Leonard Zwelling For the past five years, I have been trying to figure out what the DePinho strategy for MD Anderson was or is. I think the LeMaistre plan was basically that of a traditional academic cancer center using the revenues from patient care to sustain a
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Abraham, Hillary and Don By Leonard Zwelling The 1968 hit song Abraham, Martin and John by Dion extolled the virtues of the 16th President, along with the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. “They freed a lot of people, but it seems the good they die young…” At the debate on Sunday,
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Why Is THIS Enough? NOW They Want Trump To Pull Out! By Leonard Zwelling A friend just emailed incredulous that the latest revelatory video of Donald Trump speaking like a 16-year old locker room gym rat about a woman is the straw that seems to have broken the back of the rest of the
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EXTRA Dr. Kantarjian’s Op-Ed on the ACA and My Letter to the Editor in Response http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Kantarjian-ACA-isn-t-perfect-but-let-s-fix-it-9792117.php To the Editor: Regarding “The ACA’s future: Tweak it, or scrap it? (Page A17, Thursday), with all due respect to Dr. Hagop M. Kantarjian (“Point: Million now insured because of Obamacare; fix it, don’t kill it”), it will take
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Personalized Cancer Treatments and The Microbiome: If Tumor DNA Sequencing Could Only Solve The Problem, But It Can’t By Leonard Zwelling I’m in the middle of a fascinating new book called I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong. It’s about the microbiome, the planet’s worth of bacterial and viral species that live on and in
The Taxes Matter; The Emails Matter; Your Vote Matters; and The VP Debate Matters (A Little) By Leonard Zwelling While Donald Trump is making fun of Mrs. Clinton’s stamina and marriage, he ought to be doing a little damage control after the NY Times published three pages of his 1995 tax return that showed
Why Does Executive Pay Go Up When Financial Performance Goes Down? By Leonard Zwelling As many readers know, I am a member of the Physicians for a National Health Program, PNHP. PNHP is the organization for the single payer docs. To make a long story short, we basically believe that if a single payer,
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Why Hillary? By Leonard Zwelling I readily admit to being extremely ambivalent about voting for President this year. I find both major candidates loaded with flaws and that the choice this year is among the worst ever. But, given that adults are supposed to vote and given that these two are the choices spit
De-Bait And Switch: If It Was About Stamina, She Won By Leonard Zwelling This morning, the airwaves are full of commentary about the debate last night between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I actually thought there were two debates last night. Each was approximately 45 minutes in length. In the first, the split
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