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Jim Pinkerton

I was a domestic policy aide to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. I am now a contributor to the Fox News Channel and to the Fox Forum, and a fellow at the New America Foundation. My home page is JamesPPinkerton.com.
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New Brain-Mapping Initiative Would Be Even Stronger If It Were Linked to Urgent and Tangible... by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This scientific effort is completely meritorious on its own, but it would be even stronger and more sustainable if it were linked to urgent national goals, such as ... Read on »
Bloomberg Business Week cover story: "Why Won't Americans Listen to Alan Simpson and Erskine... by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Note this chart, from Joshua Green's cover story on the fate of Simpson-Bowles and their efforts, including "Fix the Debt"  shows that virtually all of the l ... Read on »
Rep. Michele Bachmann on the Cure Strategy by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Rep. Michele Bachmann writes about the Cure Strategy in her hometown paper , the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.     Bachmann writes about the power of medical scie ... Read on »
Moving forward on brain research--and economic growth, and fiscal sustainability. by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The New York Times reports  on a new brain-mapping project, to be launched by the Obama administration next month Scientists with the highest hopes for the proj ... Read on »
"A Cure for Healthcare Costs" by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My piece, "A Cure for Healthcare Costs," in The American Conservative.  Read on »
Alzheimer's Treatment Trends in UK Portend Higher Costs for US: A reminder, costly care is... by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Headline in the UK Telegraph : "Dementia sufferers 'abandoned', says Jeremy Hunt / Doctors are refusing to test for dementia because they think it is pointl ... Read on »
Robert W. Patterson identifies a New Bipartisan Agenda, including the Cure Strategy by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Bob Patterson, a veteran of the Bush 43 administration and a well-known conservative thinker and activist, put forth a bold agenda in Sunday's Philadelphia Inqu ... Read on »
Louis Woodhill on Serious Medicine Strategy by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Louis Woodhill, a Houston-based software entrepreneur/political activist/Forbes columnist, writes :  The right way (and, probably ... Read on »
Serious Medicine Crash 2012 Update by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The news about FDA approvals of new drugs (new medical entities) has gotten better in the last two years.   However, the number of new approvals is still 43 percent belo ... Read on »
Ellen Ratner on Serious Medicine by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My Fox colleague Ellen Ratner writes about Serious Medicine in her latest piece for WorldNetDaily . Ellen and I have been friends for 15 years, and while we ... Read on »
"True Skin" and the Dream of Physical and Medical Transcendence by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Wrap's Lucas Show reports that Warner Brothers has purchased the rights to Stephan Zlotescu's "True Skin,"based on a four-minute video posted online just a ... Read on »
Guest editorial by Jeremy Shane: If Cost Was The Only Measure of Value by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Editor's note: Jeremy Shane is a veteran of the Bush 41 administration, where he worked at the Justice Department; since then, he has worked in the energy, h ... Read on »
Interesting Idea: Eradicate a Disease--Maybe in the US, Too? by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The New York Times runs an editorial on the value of eradicating polio around the world.  Great idea! Now maybe the same concept could be applied to the US. Meanwh ... Read on »
"From the Cut Strategy to the Cure Strategy" by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The New York Times runs an editorial on the value of eradicating polio around the world.  Great idea! Now maybe the same concept could be applied to the US. ... Read on »
The Better Medical World of the Future by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Three videos from Corning Glass, envisioning many aspects of a better future life, here , here , and here .    Better medicine is a big part ... Read on »
"From Finance to Science: The Coming Paradigm Shift in Healthcare" by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy My September 16 post for the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today.  Read on »