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Physicians need to increase their awareness of the biases that may be influencing their recommendations to patients, especially those who are female or from a different racial or ethnic background.
In today's polarized political environment, commentators can get caught up in the partisanship, and assume that government action not to their liking is necessarily driven by political bias. That borders on the silly and, at a minimum, shows a lapse of historical memory.
A Court decision to overturn the individual mandate would be inconsistent with precedent dating all the way back to 1824, and would represent an effort by the Justices to inject themselves into the political and policy debates surrounding our health care problems.
Fail first policies require the least expensive drug in any class to be prescribed to a patient first, even if the physician believes a different therapy is medically best. Unfortunately, the results of fail first are not just ridiculous. They are often cruel.
Economies grow when working people have money in their pockets -- not when the super-rich are given trillions of dollars in tax cuts and are expected to trickle that money down to the rest of us. It's time to put in place a real living wage that a family can actually live on.
I began my epic 92-hour urban camp-out on the sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon. Tents are not allowed, so I assembled a folding chair, a plastic tarp, and a sleeping bag to protect me from the elements.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority seems to be caught up in what we might call the "broccoli patch."
The Justices will soon vote. They are on notice that Barack Obama will not only disapprove of them if they don't vote his way, he clearly intends to campaign against the Supreme Court if they rule ObamaCare unconstitutional.
The Affordable Care Act is the first significant break small businesses have had regarding our health insurance costs. Without it, we'd be mired once again in a system that drains our coffers and hampers our growth.
Losing Health and Human Services v. Florida would be a defeat for the Obama administration, but it does not have to be a devastating one.
Without the mandate, the costs of taking care of our own may become unsustainable. Striking it down thus would be a step toward the potential repeal of the Emergency Medical Treatment Act -- a repeal that would, for many, be a death trap.
Obama's health care program, with its private doctors, hospitals and insurance companies, isn't close to socialism, of course. But is it close enough to liberalism?
From the standpoint of constitutional law, overturning the Affordable Care Act could put dangerous constitutional restraints on Congress's ability to forge national solutions to national economic problems. That's a dangerous precedent that goes far beyond health care policy.
Without a daycare program where women can leave their hot flashes and discomfort, the best step companies can take is to educate their employees and employers.
If you want to practice good medicine on health care, you will do the following.
Women are free to choose the employers that are best for them, and women who prioritize free access to birth control can seek out institutions that offer that benefit. Then, employers would have an incentive to offer contraceptive coverage.
