What the Next President Should Do About Healthcare (Radio interview)
The sound clip below is from a radio interview on WNZF in Palm Coast, Florida on March 18 with station general manager David Ayers. Bill Tol, Director of Florida Hospital HospiceCare Foundation and I talked with David about healthcare. The interview was a prelude to a talk at the Community Open Forum educational series at Florida […]
Connecticut and Medicaid
One of the questions I am asked the most is about whether America should have a single payer for healthcare. The idea sounds compelling to many, but I argue in Health Attitude the economy of scale would turn into a diseconomy of scale. Bigger is not always better. We have 50 states and all are […]
Blood Pressure Without the Arm Cuffs
When doctors or nurses measure our blood pressure, they normally place a cuff around our arm and inflate it. The measurement is for a point in time and sometimes representative. Scientists at Australia’s Monash University are developing a new approach. Their cuffless “blood pressure estimation system” can be worn for hours at a time and wirelessly transmit real-time readings. […]
Obamacare and Healthcare Technology Startups
As I wrote in “Political Debates: Little Substance About Healthcare“, I had hoped to hear a lot of substance about healthcare reform during the political debates this year. So far, there has little substance. I doubt if any of the candidates in either party know what is in the ten parts of Obamacare, the Patient […]
Folks on Spokes – 3
The Hammock Dunes Bicycle Club members call themselves “Folks on Spokes”. The group varies between a few and a dozen. Today, six of us enjoyed a 30-mile ride. We met at the south gate of Hammock Dunes at 8am and headed south on A1A. The first leg of the ride was eight miles to Flagler Beach. Then we headed […]