A primary care physician by training, my passion is researching and writing about the importance restoring patient centered care, supporting independent private physicians, promoting free-market solutions and seeking sustainable fiscal policy in healthcare.
Author: Robert Nelson, MD
Debunking Vox’s Article on “Debunking Economic Laws” | Mises Institute
Vox is a never-ending fountain of ignorance. Like this piece about four ‘laws’ of economics that are simply wrong. Some of these claims are indeed wrong, but it’s also wrong to claim that economists make them. Let’s look at each …
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The Epidemic of Woke Politicians | Intellectual Takeout
By Martin Cothran When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when all you’ve got is politics (for an ideologue, everything is political), everything looks like it is resolvable by a law. Hence the current …
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Chasing the Numbers
A guest post from Drizzle MD “I remember the first week when I met my numbers at the clinic, and an all-smile clinic manager walked by my desk and celebrated my milestone with a cheerful “look at you, you …
How Medicare Ruined American Healthcare | Medpage Today
Regarding the King-Anderson bill, the forerunner of Medicare, touted by JFK which eventually was defeated in the Senate… “Edward Annis, MD, spoke eloquently to an empty Garden and to one of the biggest TV audiences of the times. He explained …
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FDA Approves First Drug to Treat Medical Burnout | Medpage Today
“Idongivafumab’s unique ability to target and inhibit C-suite peptides, as well the entire electronic health record (EHR) cascade, represents a quantum leap in burnout science,” Palmer explained in a statement. “Clinical test subjects also noted a marked decrease in symptoms …
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Sleep Medicine Specialist to Provide Direct Pay Video Consults to Patients in Georgia and South Carolina
For the past year I have grown increasingly frustrated as our health care system has valued payer over patient, time and time again. Even our hospital administrators seem immune to care and compassion – the bedrock of my practice. My …
John Cochrane on Why a Complicated Tax Code Leads to Negative Outcomes | PolicyEd
I’ve maintained for a long time that sound economic policy should guide politics, rather than politics guiding economic policy. John Cochrane substantiates that axiom well with this short treatise of the importance of getting the tax code right! https://www.policyed.org/policy-briefs/john-cochrane-why-complicated-tax-code-leads-negative-outcomes/video
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