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Jim Pinkerton
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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
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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 ...
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Two new pieces published at the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today
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Parts one and two of a Spenglerian series.
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Seen on The Daily Beas ...
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Seen on The Daily Beast website : the US government advertising the Affordable Care Act.
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"The Alzheimer's 'Time Bomb' and the Supply-Side Solution" -- posted at Medical Progress Today
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Here's the link to that piece at the Manhattan Institute blog .
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Alzheimer's is science issue, not a finance issue
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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 ...
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Jeremy Shane: The Best of Times, and the Worst of Times, for Health and Healthcare
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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 ...
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All Visions Must Pass: Donald Berwick Departs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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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 ...
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DARPA to the rescue! If civilians have lost interest in developing cures, let the military do it.
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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 ...
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The FDA’s Rejection of Avastin: Not Part of the Solution, Part of the Problem
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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 ...
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Helping the paralyzed to walk--can Uncle Sam compute the value of that?
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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 ...
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More on the Serious Medicine Crash
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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 ...
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Serious Medicine Crash update
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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 ...
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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
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"The Super Committee Faces the Challenge of Knowing the Unknowable"
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From the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today blog .
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Serious Medicine Strategy is now part of the the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today Blog
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From the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today blog .
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The return of fatalism: One time-tested way to save money on healthcare--embrace illness and death
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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- ...
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Frederic Bastiat, Call Your Office: What the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Would...
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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 ...
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Governor Rick Perry takes on cancer at the Reagan Library presidential debate
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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 ...
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What Happens When “The doctor will see you now” Is Replaced by “Show me the...
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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 ...
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Serious Medicine Strategist, zeroes in on why, if present trends are...
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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 ...
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