Monthly Archives: November 2009

Of Carrot Cake and Oreos

Dr. David Kessler, as you’ve probably heard, is out with a terrific best-seller called The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. The cover grabs your attention: very pure white glossy background with...

How Health Reform Can Improve End-of-Life Care

Health care reform offers significant opportunities not only to improve the quality of end-of-life care, but to apply the principles of good end-of-life care to improving our health care system. Since an estimated 25 percent of Medicare...

Immigrants and Health Care – The Real Numbers and Policy Implications

As the House and Senate move toward the final outlines of health care reform legislation, they confront important questions about how proposals might apply to immigrants. There is consensus that unauthorized immigrants be excluded from the...

The Challenge of Modern Health Information Privacy Laws

Alex Berenson in the New York Times recently wrote, “The most precious commodity on Wall Street is information…” (1) A similar observation may hold true concerning health data in the modern contexts of health care practice...