The Doctor Is In

It is late in the day, and few are prepared for the darkness coming. The signs, it seems, are everywhere: U.S. Treasury 2009 Financial Report Shows Dire Course The Treasury Department recently issued the 2009 financial report of the United States government. … the annual report is untainted by creative accounting but also because its [...]

Today is Good Friday. It has been my custom, on this extraordinary day, to post an old meditation on the meaning of the cross, called Three Men on a Friday. Today, however, I feel led to meditate on something rather different, though not unrelated. Good Friday, of course, is the Church’s remembrance of its most [...]

From the New England Journal of Medicine, a recent physician survey on the effects of the pending health care reform legislation on physician supply: Key Findings Physician Support of Health Reform in General • 62.7% of physicians feel that health reform is needed but should be implemented in a more targeted, gradual way, as opposed [...]

As the Democrats in Congress press forward in blind determination to pass their health care reform legislation come hell or high water, the pernicious effects of the legislation are increasingly becoming evident to anyone who takes the time to dig into its details. Though our Congressional representatives cannot seem to find the time to read [...]

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything but his reason.          – G.K. Chesterton – We have become a nation of experts. They are everywhere: on TV, advising us about raising our children or improving our sex life; in magazines and [...]

In the dark of night, appropriately, the Senate last night voted to end debate on its health care reform bill, bringing it to a floor vote. From Commentary magazine comes the following assessment of what will be voted on: The non-reform health-care bill does, to the disgust of liberals, make insurance companies very happy. The [...]

Over at Big Government, we get a glimpse of where ObamaCare will take us: Health Care’s Coming Heart Attack – A Pre-Obama Care Death Panel? I am writing of the Obama Administration’s – regulatory decision – to go ahead with a massive cut in Medicare payments to cardiologists. I emphasize that this is a regulatory [...]

Many of us have been struggling to understand the nature of our current economic meltdown. Was it greedy bankers, who made unscrupulous loans while passing the risks on to others? High-rolling hedge fund managers who resold the risky bundled securities and reaped millions? Politicians and political activists who pressured banks and lending organizations to make [...]