An Already Sick Nation Crushed By Coronavirus
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – We now know that most of the Americans who need to be...
Tag: US Health Care
American Health Care Is a True Monstrosity Unnecessary procedures and out of control prices. $ 50,000 for a knee replacement that costs $ 10,000
WASHINGTON – Among wealthy nations, America holds the dubious record as the country with the highest health care spending as...
Wellness Programs Will Transform US Health care Doctors should be rewarded for teaching people how to stay healthy
WASHINGTON – Undoing Obamacare is proving to be a lot more complicated than what confident President Trump (and the...
80% Of All US Children Follow A Bad Diet Because of junk food, millions of American kids are developing heart disease
WASHINGTON – The alarming news is that millions of American children now exhibit signs of heart disease normally found...
Healthy Looking Ethiopians, Unhealthy Americans In Addis Ababa, no obese people and no smokers. In the US we spend trillions to treat the health impact of bad personal habits
ADDIS ABABA – Walking around this large city I notice relatively healthy looking people. In particular, comparing Addis to...
The Cure For Many Chronic Diseases Is In Life Style Changes Sophisticated "precision medicine" will help a lot less than adopting good habits: healthy food and regular exercise
WASHINGTON – President Obama wants to support pioneering medical research. Hence his proposal to invest hundreds of millions of...
Ebola: We Should Design Better Protective Clothing For Health Care Workers It is incredible that doctors and nurses have to get in and out of cumbersome "space suits"
WASHINGTON – Here we go. In America we are in the middle of a media-induced “Ebola scare”. Indeed, we have...
Obamacare: The Triumph Of Presumptuous Policy-Makers Experts really believed that they could transform a messy US health care system with just a few magic strokes
WASHINGTON – It will take a long time to fully understand and measure the impact of the Affordable Care...
Americans Waste One-Third Of All The Money Spent On Health Care Incredible but true. Fixing Obamacare will not solve any of the problems due to over spending
By Paolo von Schirach March 2, 2014 WASHINGTON – The Obamacare fiasco, or at least semi-fiasco, continues to generate...
Bernard Tyson, Kaiser Permamente CEO, Argues That The US Health Care Industry Should Re-Focus On Prevention We spend immense resources treating diseases that could be prevented. The "fee for service" model does not help save any money
By Paolo von Schirach October 16, 2013 WASHINGTON – Whatever the eventual fate of Obamacare, let’s be clear that this law is...