by John G. Self | Jun 17, 2010 | Healthcare
The cost of healthcare in the U.S. is one of, if not the, biggest underlying cause of the rising U.S. budget deficit. As more and more people enter the Medicare program — an estimated 78 million within the next 20 years — our skyrocketing costs, the...
by John G. Self | Mar 6, 2010 | Current Affairs, Healthcare
The government’s attempt to eliminate fraud and waste from the Medicare Program represents another strategy to reduce Medicare spending. As this effort to eliminate fraud and cut waste unfolds, and as Congress hears repeated horror stories regarding abuses and...
by John G. Self | Sep 24, 2009 | Healthcare
We are all showered with annoying telemarketing phone calls, pop-up advertisements, and email spam. We are too fat. We are too bald. We are too lazy or certainly not sufficiently attractive. We are stupid for paying too much for our home mortgage or an auto loan. We...
by John G. Self | Oct 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
BALTIMORE, October 7, 2008 — Healthcare leaders who believe that nothing much will change in the way we deliver and fund services should find a copy of the Sunday New York Times. In a two-page frontal assault on this nation’s fiscal mess, former Secretary of...