Len Zwelling

A Reminder of Why I Love Houston AND What Has Been Lost

A Reminder of Why I Love Houston AND What Has Been Lost By Leonard Zwelling          It’s snowing. Need I say more?          I am writing from the United Lounge in Reagan National Airport across the Potomac from Washington, DC on Sunday, January 17. We are waiting for the small plane to Houston and watching

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Skin In The Game

Skin In The Game By Leonard Zwelling          In a critically important article in the NY Times on Sunday, January 10 called “Defying the Medical Machine,” Noam Schreiber describes efforts by a group of hospitalists in Oregon to organize in a union, not to protect their incomes, but to protect their patients. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/doctors-unionize-to-resist-the-medical-machine.html          Hospital

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The Truth About American Health Insurance: Not a Pretty Picture

The Truth About American Health Insurance: Not a Pretty Picture By Leonard Zwelling          The Obama Administration is proud of passing health care legislation in 2010, the famous Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare. I am not at all sure it should be because it is not at all clear that the ACA really makes health

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