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  • Learning the Wrong Lesson
  • An Elementary Lesson On Price and Human Behavior
  • Starting Over With Healthcare Reform Is, Unfortunately, a Matter of Religion
  • A Chance, However Slim, to Retrieve Healthcare from the Abyss
  • More on Our National Effort to Dumb Down Physicians
  • Carefully Crafting the Politically Correct Physician
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May
15

Learning the Wrong Lesson

by Dr. Doug Perednia

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot-stove lid.  She will never sit down on a hot–stove lid again – but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. –Mark Twain A big part of the problem with

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May
7

An Elementary Lesson On Price and Human Behavior

by Dr. Doug Perednia

It’s difficult to understand why (unless, as we highly recommend, you read Dr. Rich’s Covert Rationing Blog), but President Obama and his colleagues clearly wish to eliminate any responsibility that patients might with respect to paying for their own healthcare.  This might be a good idea if the ultimate objective is to maximize both the demand for medical goods and garner votes from the grateful

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Apr
21

Starting Over With Healthcare Reform Is, Unfortunately, a Matter of Religion

by Dr. Doug Perednia

In our last post, we took a post-Supreme Court-hearings look at the financial and administrative disaster that the famously misnamed “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (aka “Obamacare” or the “ACA”) has become.  At the same time we observed that having it overturned by the high court would provide a much-needed opportunity to wipe the healthcare slate clean and start over. Thus, the question arises

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Apr
8

A Chance, However Slim, to Retrieve Healthcare from the Abyss

by Dr. Doug Perednia

If you’re like most people, by now you’re probably sick to death of hearing about the details of the arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA” or “ObamaCare”) made recently in the Supreme Court, President Obama’s strange and almost imperial warning to the court in reply to the hearings, and the backpedaling “of course the court can overturn unconstitutional laws except

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Mar
23

More on Our National Effort to Dumb Down Physicians

by Dr. Doug Perednia

The digital ink was barely dry on our most recent post about manipulating the training of American physicians to make them perfect Renaissance men and women, when an article was published on the topic in JAMA by the brother of President Obama’s former White House Chief of Staff, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD PhD, and Victor R. Fuchs, PhD. In our last post we described how

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RTH In The News

  • Health Care Reform: How Will It Impact the Practicing Physician?
    A particularly interesting MD Magazine – Peers & Perspectives Discussion
  • Dr. Perednia on PJTV: ObamaCare Is Sick: Doctor Diagnoses the Illness Behind Obama's Health Care Law
    Douglas Perednia, M.D. thinks that Obama’s health care legislation is actually making the health care system worse. The average doctor spends five working weeks a year on paper work, and it will only get worse under ObamaCare. Video interview with Danika
  • Financial Times Press – Introduction to Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine by Douglas Perednia M.D. – Read first chapter
    Douglas A. Perednia explains that improving the efficiency of the system might be the only way to prevent a meltdown of the larger economy and restore growth in the standard of living.
  • The Washington Times 12/27/2010
    PEREDNIA: Doctors Left In The Lurch By Own Medical Associations

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