Why no one should take Nexium and it should never have been approved
Category: Health Care
As Chris discussed Saturday the WSJ had a silly article in which a woman demands a prescription drug from a...
Posted by MarkH at 6:00 AM • 37 Comments •
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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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Healthcare reform
Category: Health Care
With the recent victory of this administration in passing health care reform I felt it was time to talk again...
Posted by MarkH at 6:00 AM • 4 Comments •
This day in Crankery, November 16th
Category: Health Care
So who here has actually read the health care bill?. I've been devoting a bit of time each week to...
Posted by MarkH at 7:00 AM • 6 Comments •
Welcome Back to Denialism Blog
Category: Birthers
Despite rumors to the contrary, I am not dead. Instead I've been working hard as a new surgical intern and sadly not finding the time to write for the denialism blog. However, now more than ever, it seems that we need to talk about the problem of denialism.
Posted by MarkH at 2:02 PM • 24 Comments •
The Obama Plan - Part I
Category: Health Care
We're starting to hear about how Obama intends to implement healthcare in this country. The letter published at whitehouse.gov, lays out some basic ideas, but it seems as though Obama is willing to have congress work out the specifics. Let's go through his recommendations and talk about the implications.
Posted by MarkH at 12:41 PM • 14 Comments •
What is health care like in the UK, Canada and New Zealand?
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 •
What is the cause of excess costs in US healthcare?
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 •
What is health care like in France?
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 •
What is healthcare like in Germany?
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 •
What is healthcare like in the Netherlands?
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 •
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