Everyone I have talked to agrees that healthcare has become politicized — but what can we do about it? It does not matter whether healthcare is a right or a privilege. All that matters is that being healthy is a right, and uniting around that idea. The individual has a…

CVS-Aetna Merger: Will it Really Benefit Doctors and Patients, or Just Corporate Balance Sheets? Since CVS Health announced it would buy health insurance giant Aetna for about $69 billion, analysts have been debating about how the deal will affect the bottom lines of both companies. But since the merger has the potential to bring radical change to our healthcare system, more people should be…

Healthcare has become a political war game. Ideally, many political ideologies and parties should emerge in our country and have a fair chance of catching on, but instead all political sentiments are forced into one of two major parties. For example, nationalist thinking is now at one end of the…

America’s healthcare system is dysfunctional, and consumers pay t much for the care that has become more commoditized than it is personalized. At the same time, general practitioners and specialists are making more in this country than they are almost anywhere else in the world, newly published research has found. …

As the country’s healthcare providers increasingly form Accountable Care Organizations to share resources and responsibilities for treating Medicare patients, the Southern Medical Association says it takes a village to provide good healthcare, and that the ACO model is that village. It’s very true that healthcare delivery is a group effort…

E-cigarettes are the major topics of today’s multifaceted sociopolitical discourse. The modern era nicotine conspiracy is hosted by Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris USA, John Middleton, Inc. — — hypocrisy by the state and publicized by the mass media. I aspire to justify it as the new hoodlum…

The number of ambulatory surgery centers is rising steadily, but so is the patient mortality rate. Ambulatory surgery centers offer a less costly healthcare delivery model and are a source of revenue. But they are also bureaucracies rife with office politics. Hospital operating rooms are busy, overcrowded and the cost…

For the past decade Stem cell therapy, research and its applications in medicine have been the topic of prodigious controversy, not only…

Doctors who want their independence should be able to keep it, and putting the right tools in their hands is the way to make that happen. — When the Affordable Care Act was passed into law, independent physicians said the new policy would be devastating to doctors who want to keep the autonomy that many have to give up if they join managed-care systems. A lot has happened since the U.S. Congress signed ACA into law seven…

Everyone wants a slice of the healthcare pie! But have you wondered why? Why are the non-medical entities acting like they have entered a new era of Gold Rush? Simply because they can manipulate the system, they could churn out more profits if there is no interference. Things have taken…