healthcare – The Ten Commandments Project

It’s A Miracle, I’m Sick!

“Because that’s where the money is.” Willie Sutton Be it a bank or a liquor store, that’s where the money is! Theft is an art form. Bank Robber extraordinaire Mr. Willie Sutton understood that robbery is more rewarding when the target is swimming in cash. If Mr. Sutton grew up today, he would likely targetContinue reading “It’s A Miracle, I’m Sick!”

Jonah & The Killer Whale

Now should I not take pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are many more than one hundred twenty thousand people who do not know their right hand from their left…? Jonah 4:11 Is United States a modern-day Nineveh? If so, how many residents don’t know their right hand from their left? GivenContinue reading “Jonah & The Killer Whale”

Universal Healthcare Is Not About Healthcare

A Progressive Leader, while confessing leftist sins, declared that “Universal Healthcare” was one of movement’s causes. Why? Power. Universal Health Care creates power. If someone other than an elected official controlled seventeen percent of the United States’ economy, what would you think? Currently, U.S. health care costs hover at around seventeen percent. Someone controlling aContinue reading “Universal Healthcare Is Not About Healthcare”

Gaming The System

A Retired Judge often complained to me about parties “gaming the system.” She- keen on this issue- authored a well-respected treatise. Her text addressed a Health Care System plagued with controversy. In the United States, there are a number of Health Care Systems. These include Medicare, Medicaid, and Workers’ Compensation. All of these systems areContinue reading “Gaming The System”

A Feel So Good Moment

In three decades of advocating health care to clients, my father presented me with my most unique challenge. In his mid-80s and ravaged by Alzheimers, his severely arthritic hip jeopardized both his functionality and well-being. His fragile mental state appeared to make a hip replacement surgery impossible. Exposure to anesthesia made the procedure too risky.Continue reading “A Feel So Good Moment”

Delay, Deny, Defend? The Uncomfortable Truth

“Delay, deny & defend.” Was the motive behind the UnitedHealthcare’s CEO’s assassination the Health Insurance Industry’s policies of delay, deny and defend? It appears likely that the murder’s motive was the perceived belief of Insurance Industry misdeeds. While this act of vigilantism should not be a “feel so good” moment., the assassin is now bothContinue reading “Delay, Deny, Defend? The Uncomfortable Truth”