For your reading pleasure and edification, I’ve added Movin’ Meat to the HCBS blogroll. Its proprietor (”Shadowfax”) is an ER doc practicing in the Pacific Northwest and the blog often provides useful and amusing insights into the real world of emergency medicine.
Despite the fact that Shadowfax is a confirmed Obamaton whose idealism sometimes overwhelms his capacity […]
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THE PHONY TROOPERGATE SCANDAL
Democrats and the “news” media (but I repeat myself) are aggressively promoting the “troopergate” story. In the tawdry tradition of Ronnie Earle, an Alaska Democrat named Hollis French is overseeing an “investigation” into Governor Palin’s firing of Walt Monegan, an official who was apparently using his office to protect a crazy and dangerous state trooper named Michael Wooten.
Trooper Wooten, whose various offenses included Tasering his […]
NEW HCBS CONTRIBUTOR
As some readers will have already noticed, HCBS has a new contributor. I’m delighted to welcome Elizabeth A. Terrell as a contributor.
Elizabeth has a B.S. in Economics from the University of Mary Washington. She has worked with the National Taxpayers Union and Foundation, where she contributes to the GovernmentBYTES blog, and is an occasional contributor to the […]
PANDA ESCAPES THE ZOO
I hate to see Panda depart. As GruntDoc puts it, “he’s been one of the best writers in the medical blogosphere.”
And his response to the claim that a single-payer system is better than socialized medicine because, in the former, the government merely controls the money is one of my all time favorite quotes on the subject:
If you were to get […]
BUSH RESPONSIBLE FOR LONGEVITY DECLINE?
As I pointed out yesterday, the Harvard longevity study was bound to produce some tendentious responses. But I must say that even I was not prepared for anything as dumb as this post from AmericaBlog:
Another proud legacy of the Bush administration, news you’d probably expect to hear from developing nations, not the United States of America in the […]
LESS IS MORE
Panda Bear, MD must have incredibly strong metacarpals. His posts make my hands hurt just reading them. And, unlike most long blog posts, his effusions usually remain coherent from beginning to end. Here’s his take on what government can do to improve health care:
It would be a simpler, cheaper, and, as our country is terrifically overdoctored and overmedicated, probably […]
OUTLAW ANONYMOUS POSTING?
It would appear that a Kentucky dickhead congressman wants to outlaw anonymous posting:
Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.
Nope. He’s not kidding:
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
If our masters inside the Beltway […]
HCBS IS A YEAR OLD
I inflicted my first post on an unsuspecting world on February 7, 2007. It received a whopping 41 page views. Counting only those readers who were not my friends or relatives, it may have racked up a dozen reads.
That didn’t bother me, however, because I was so clueless about blogging that I didn’t know how to access my stats. When I finally unraveled that […]
ER WAIT TIMES REVISITED
Lots of medbloggers wrote about that ER wait time study, and everyone agrees that the basic problem is overcrowding. What I found interesting was the diversity of opinion as to what is causing the overcrowding:
Kevin believes the root problem is lack of PCP access:
Like most of today’s health care problems, a lack of primary care access is […]
Church Ladies of the Left
Today I’m starting an intermittent series in which I intend to highlight particularly sanctimonious blog posts and essays about health care—the kind of moralizing that evokes images of the Church Lady leaning over her desk and asking, “Could it be (fill in appropriate Lefty demon)?”
Today’s church lady is Maggie Mahar, whose latest post about the WellCare investigation […]
