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Jim Pinkerton

Blog: http://seriousmedicinestrategy.blogspot.com/
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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Why Neither Party is Winning: The Search for a Better Healthcare Model by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Just posted on FoxNews.com , including this discussion of healthcare in the context of the budget battles In addition, all attempts at projecting budget s ... Read on »
Two new pieces published at the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Parts one and two of a Spenglerian series. Read on »
Seen on The Daily Beas ... by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Seen on The Daily Beast website : the US government advertising the Affordable Care Act. Read on »
"The Alzheimer's 'Time Bomb' and the Supply-Side Solution" -- posted at Medical Progress Today by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Here's the link to that piece at the Manhattan Institute blog .  Read on »
Alzheimer's is science issue, not a finance issue by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Telegraph reports on the conclusion of Dr. Peter Piot, an early voice on AIDS, declaring that dementia stemming from Alzheimer's could be the "next global health t ... Read on »
Jeremy Shane: The Best of Times, and the Worst of Times, for Health and Healthcare by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Editor's Note: Jeremy Shane is the President and COO of the Health Central Network , based in the Washington DC area.    Jeremy is a leader in both the business sid ... Read on »
All Visions Must Pass: Donald Berwick Departs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dr. Donald Berwick, now departed from his 17-month recess appointment as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)--he was unable to win confirmation by ... Read on »
DARPA to the rescue! If civilians have lost interest in developing cures, let the military do it. by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Wired magazine reports that the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a new approach to antibiotics--or post-antibiotics.   As Wired's Kat ... Read on »
The FDA’s Rejection of Avastin: Not Part of the Solution, Part of the Problem by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to restrict the use Avastin for breast cancer has attracted some cautious supporters in unexpected places.  MPT’s own Paul How ... Read on »
Helping the paralyzed to walk--can Uncle Sam compute the value of that? by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A company called Ekso Bionics has developed a wearable, battery-powered exoskeleton that enables the paralyzed to walk ; that's one Amanda Boxtel, above, walking for t ... Read on »
More on the Serious Medicine Crash by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Data from the California Healthcare Institute and the Boston Consulting Group providing yet another metric of the decay of healthcare investment in the US .   Note ste ... Read on »
Serious Medicine Crash update by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Data from the California Healthcare Institute and the Boston Consulting Group providing yet another metric of the decay of healthcare investment in the US .   Note st ... Read on »
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Read on »
"The Super Committee Faces the Challenge of Knowing the Unknowable" by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy From the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today blog .  Read on »
Serious Medicine Strategy is now part of the the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today Blog by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy From the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today blog .  Read on »
The return of fatalism: One time-tested way to save money on healthcare--embrace illness and death by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Is disease a blessed event hastening our path to heaven?   Should we look beyond the pain and suffering and focus only on the end goal?  It's easy to mock this don't- ... Read on »
Frederic Bastiat, Call Your Office: What the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Would... by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Under the headline, “What We Hope to See From the Super Committee,” the Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) weighed in yesterday with its recommendations ... Read on »
Governor Rick Perry takes on cancer at the Reagan Library presidential debate by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Under the headline, “What We Hope to See From the Super Committee,” the Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) weighed in yesterday with its recommendat ... Read on »
What Happens When “The doctor will see you now” Is Replaced by “Show me the... by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A fascinating article appeared in Monday’s New York Times , headlined, “Adjusting, More M.D.’s Add M.B.A.”  That is, medical doctors are now getting master’s de ... Read on »
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Serious Medicine Strategist, zeroes in on why, if present trends are... by Jim Pinkerton Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In critically analyzing the Washington DC debate over the debt ceiling, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the well-known British journalist, makes a portion of Serious Medicin ... Read on »
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