Uncategorized

Rationing By Any Other Name

Byadmin September 18, 2012

“Rationing By Any Other Name” – The New England Journal of Medicine

Uncategorized

Got a Big Belly? (Why Big Sugar Is to Blame)
Byadmin November 7, 2017

Photo Credit: LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images Growing up Republican, I have long believed in personal responsibility. In junior high school, when I observed close relatives who struggled with obesity, I vowed to never let myself get out of shape. (“Junior high” is what we called middle school back in the day.) When hip surgery gone wrong…

Read More Got a Big Belly? (Why Big Sugar Is to Blame)
Uncategorized

Financial Disparities and Abdominal Girth
Byadmin February 11, 2016

I recognize that correlation does not prove causation. But here is a picture illustrating the correlation between income inequality and the percent of a country’s population that is obese. The findings are provocative, to say the least. Making the relationship somewhat plausible is all the evidence we have now of the toll that income inequality…

Read More Financial Disparities and Abdominal Girth
Uncategorized

Promoting Population Health through Financial Stewardship
Byadmin April 18, 2012

“Promoting Population Health through Financial Stewardship” – The New England Journal of Medicine

Read More Promoting Population Health through Financial Stewardship
Uncategorized

How Companies Can Save Millions on Healthcare Benefits (without Harming Employees)
Byadmin March 28, 2017

The free market is supposed to be efficient. Yet employers are throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars, by not giving their employees intelligently designed healthcare benefits that encourage them to shop for affordable lab tests. Right now, when your doctor orders a CBC (complete blood count) and a basic chemistry panel (checking your sodium,…

Read More How Companies Can Save Millions on Healthcare Benefits (without Harming Employees)
Uncategorized

Puccini Was Dying Of Cancer—Hiding His Diagnosis Was A Grave Mistake
Byadmin2 June 9, 2023

It would have been a difficult ending under the best of circumstances. Composing what would be his last opera, Giacomo Puccini was struggling to humanize Turandot, daughter of the Emperor and a woman of mesmerizing beauty. Early in the opera, she had cruelly disposed of a series of want-to-be suitors, beheading some and torturing others,…

Read More Puccini Was Dying Of Cancer—Hiding His Diagnosis Was A Grave Mistake
Uncategorized

These Americans Are Rich – Should We Celebrate?
Byadmin May 20, 2015

American manufacturing has declined precipitously in the past few decades. Companies that were once the source of fabulous wealth for Americans – the U.S. Steel profits that enriched the Carnegie family, the Ford Motor F -1.29% Company profits that enriched its eponymous family – are now struggling to keep up with foreign competitors. Thank God…

Read More These Americans Are Rich – Should We Celebrate?

Rationing By Any Other Name

Got a Big Belly? (Why Big Sugar Is to Blame)

Financial Disparities and Abdominal Girth

Promoting Population Health through Financial Stewardship

How Companies Can Save Millions on Healthcare Benefits (without Harming Employees)

Puccini Was Dying Of Cancer—Hiding His Diagnosis Was A Grave Mistake

These Americans Are Rich – Should We Celebrate?

Connect with Peter

PeterUbel

Similar Posts

Connect with Peter

PeterUbel