Dr. Behzad Mohit is an author, physician, and graduate of the State University of New York medical school with eleven years of postgraduate studies in prestigious universities and research institutes including Mallory Institute of Pathology (Harvard, Boston University, Tufts), Brandeis Graduate Department of Biochemistry, the National Institutes of Health and the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. His original research at Brandeis, National Institutes of Health and the UCSF biochemistry department has been published in prestigious journals of science, proceedings at the National Academy of Sciences, British Journal of Bacteriology and others. Numerous medical scientists have quoted his work in immunology and bacteriology and other fields. He is a board certified clinical pathologist and board eligible dermatologist. He has worked in private practice for twenty years, and worked pro bono at the Blackmans Free Clinic of San Francisco. He had an honorable discharge from the U.S. Public Health Service with a rank of Commander in the U.S. Navy.

At present, he continues pro bono work as well as writing on diverse subjects. Recently he has spearheaded an innovative Internet enterprise to bring people together to help each other. He is founder and chairman/CEO of the Internet startup helpeachother.com, a bottom-up organization that facilitates people helping each other and helping their communities. It is the author’s intuition that we are at a tipping point of transformation from an individualistic, competitive society to an altruistic, cooperative, global community. The proposal for a nonprofit universal health care system would be an important example of our future cooperative community.

Blog Entries by Dr. Behzad Mohit

Universal Health Care: The Trojan Horse of For-Profit Health

Posted June 6, 2009 | 01:27 PM (EST)


During the Bronze Age, legend has it that the Greeks laid siege to the city of Troy. They couldn't conquer it by raw military strength, so after ten years they turned to trickery. The Greeks presented a huge figure of a horse, which the Trojans took within their walls as...

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The Human Faces of For-Profit Health Care

31 Comments | Posted May 25, 2009 | 04:48 PM (EST)


To put a human face on our health care problem, I will share some stories with you to bring home the reason why we are so desperately in need of a nonprofit, people-funded, people-managed, private, single payer system. I have been in medicine for 40 years and have lots of...

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The Promise of Universal Health Care: An Open Letter to President Obama

13 Comments | Posted May 14, 2009 | 10:27 AM (EST)


Dear Mr. President,

You have given us the "audacity of hope" and the promise of change. You have vociferously indicated that our health care system is in need of major change. You have said that 50 million Americans are uninsured. Medicare is moving toward bankruptcy and taking down the economy...

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Universal Health Care Can Save Our Economy and Keep 1.7 million Jobs in the U.S.: Part III

21 Comments | Posted May 11, 2009 | 12:16 PM (EST)


In the first article of this series, I wrote that a universal health care system "can save more in one year than what we spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since 9/11, i.e. a trillion dollars." I was wrong. There is more to it than that. Let me explain:...

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Universal Health Care Can Save Our Economy Part II: Quality Control

32 Comments | Posted April 18, 2009 | 04:39 PM (EST)


The first article I wrote explained that implementing a Universal Health Care System, through a non-profit, single payer, private health insurance agency can save us one trillion dollars per year. That is more than what we spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. This system saves...

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Universal Health Care Can Save Our Economy

35 Comments | Posted April 15, 2009 | 07:28 PM (EST)


Isn't it amazing that by implementing a universal health care system, as introduced in this article, we can save more in one year than what we spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since 9/11, i.e. a trillion dollars? We can save this much each and every year and keep...

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