Michael L. Millenson, president of Health Quality Advisors LLC in Highland Park, IL, is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age. National Public Radio called him “in the vanguard of the movement” to measure and improve medical care, and he holds an adjunct appointment as the Mervin Shalowitz, M.D. Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Millenson has been a principal in the health-care practice of a major consulting firm and, earlier in his career, was nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize as a a reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Blog Entries by Michael L. Millenson

A Second City Warning to Obama

12 Comments | Posted July 7, 2009 | 12:06 PM (EST)


For all those Obama-ites confident that they won't make the same mistakes pushing health care reform that the Clinton administration did, might I suggest a trip back home?

Just a few minutes into the Second City comedy troupe's latest show, America: All Better!, the usual japes about the Jesus-like hopes...

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When Will McCain Tell Obama About Osama?

Posted January 27, 2009 | 03:26 PM (EST)


The controversial U.S. missile strikes on suspected Islamic terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan over the last few days reminded me of John McCain's defiant campaign promise about Osama bin Laden. If you recall the HuffPost story back in July, McCain proclaimed in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer:

Look,...
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A Blessing for Barack (A Jewish Prayer for All Obama-ites)

Posted January 19, 2009 | 02:47 PM (EST)


Like William Kristol, I attend a Conservative synagogue (that's not a political designation) whose congregants each week recite prayers for our country and for the State of Israel. Unlike Kristol, who writes in this the Jan. 19 New York Times about his reaction to this past Shabbat's prayers, I am...

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David Axelrod: Modern-Day Walter Mitty

Posted November 13, 2008 | 06:20 PM (EST)


It's easy to focus on the big money David Axelrod raked in and will be giving up if he joins the Obama administration as a senior adviser to the president. But if you look at the bigger picture, what you see is a modern-day Walter Mitty who ought...

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McCain's Health Care Plan Radically Irresponsible

Posted October 7, 2008 | 01:22 PM (EST)


What a disappointment. Here Barack Obama accuses John McCain of pushing a "radical" health care plan, and instead of grabbing the chance to don a scarlet "R," the would-be change agents of the McCain campaign bristlingly respond with business-as-usual. It is Obama, they say, who harbors secret ties with dangerous...

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