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Mark Hoofnagle has a MD and PhD in physiology from the University of Virginia, and is now a general surgery resident. His interest in denialism concerns the use of denialist tactics to confuse public understanding of scientific knowledge.
Chris Hoofnagle teaches privacy and computer crime law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. A former Washington lawyer, Chris wrote the The Denialists' Deck of Cards based upon his experiences working on consumer protection.
PalMD is a practicing internist in the Midwestern United States. Aside from the great joy he finds in his family and his work, he likes communicating some of that joy to others. He has a special interest in the ways patients---and we are all patients at one time or another---are deceived by charlatans. He aims to change the world, one reader at a time. Previous writings can still be found here.
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May 29, 2009
Category: Health Care
Three systems widely cited as examples of universal health care are the so-called single-payer systems in the UK, Canada and...
Posted by MarkH at 6:30 AM • 52 Comments •
May 28, 2009
Category: Health Care
The question has come up again and again in our discussions on health care in the US and around the world, why does it cost so much more in the US when we get so much less?
Posted by MarkH at 12:26 PM • 37 Comments •
Category: Health Care
Here it comes. How dare I suggest the US could learn anything from France? By most assessments France provides the best health care in the world, with excellent life expectancy, low rates of health-care amenable disease, and again, despite providing excellent universal care, they spend less per capita than the US.
Posted by MarkH at 6:21 AM • 7 Comments •
May 27, 2009
Category: Health Care
What better argument for universal health care can you make than that of Germany? By far one of the most successful systems, it has had some form of universal health care for almost 130 years, and is currently one of the most successful health care systems in the world.
Posted by MarkH at 6:36 AM • 19 Comments •
May 26, 2009
Category: Book Reviews
Seth Kalichman is a better man than I. Kalichman is a clinical psychologist, editor of the journal Aids and...
Posted by MarkH at 6:56 AM • 57 Comments •
Category: Health Care
The Dutch really have it together on health care, they have a system that has been proposed as a model for the US to emulate. In stark contrast to many other European systems, it's actually based entirely on private insurers, rather than a single-payer or entirely national system. Yet the Dutch system is universal, has far superior rates of satisfaction with quality of care and access, and still costs a fraction of what we pay for health care per capita in the US. How is this possible?
Posted by MarkH at 6:20 AM • 49 Comments •
May 25, 2009
Category: Health Care
To start off some balanced discussions of what universal health care looks like around the world, I thought I would begin with Australia, a system that we could learn a great deal from.
Posted by MarkH at 6:32 AM • 35 Comments •
May 23, 2009
Category: Science
A few days ago I asked how do we break this cycle of news reports based on terrible misreading of the scientific literature literature. All these reports do is spread misinformation and undermine trust in scientific research. Well, the British National Health System has the answer!
Posted by MarkH at 2:43 PM • 4 Comments •
May 22, 2009
Category: Health Care
A dishonest campaign has started against healthcare reform in this country and the first shot has come from Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR), a group purporting to show that patients in universal health systems suffer from government interference in health care. But what do the data show?
Posted by MarkH at 7:00 AM • 69 Comments •
May 21, 2009
Category: Carnivals
I have no idea what possessed Action Skeptics to use the Sham Wow guy to present this week's entries, but...
Posted by MarkH at 8:39 AM • 3 Comments •
Orac 02.13.2012
Tim Lambert 02.01.2012
PZ Myers 02.02.2012
ERV 11.26.2011
Orac 01.26.2012
