What Admiral McRaven Could Learn From President Trump By Leonard Zwelling Readers of this blog know that I am no fan of Donald Trump. That being said, his decision to send cruise missiles into a Syrian air base from which raids were putatively launched that resulted in the use of Sarin gas on Syrian citizens […]
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What Is It About Insurance That Congress Doesn’t Get? By Leonard Zwelling, MD, MBA http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/04/news/economy/obamacare-freedom-caucus-pre-existing-conditions/index.html What is the purpose of insurance—any insurance? Quite simply it is the vehicle by which risk of bad things happening to individuals or businesses is distributed over a large population of individuals or businesses. Everyone in the population pays into
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Will The Next President Of MD Anderson Govern With Populism Or Democracy?: It’s A Necessary Choice By Leonard Zwelling The article referenced above delineates the difference between populism and democracy. One can tend to end in autocracy. The other will preserve “the consent of the governed.” In Venezuela today, what began as a populist movement
It’s Time For An Independent Investigation: In Washington And In Houston By Leonard Zwelling Despite President Trump’s multiple attempts to change the subject, Washington is fixated on determining the extent to which the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in trying to undermine the Clinton team during the race for the White House. Did anyone
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The Cost Of Making A Mess: Ron’s Golden Parachute By Leonard Zwelling https://www.utsystem.edu/sites/utsfiles/offices/board-of-regents/board-meetings/agenda-book-full/3-28-2017ab.pdf This link is to the agenda and notes of the meeting of the Board of Regents of the UT System from March 28, 2017. Scroll down and you will see a letter included from Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Greenberg to
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The Moon Shot Of RyanCare By Leonard Zwelling Now, can we get back to real business? You know, like whether or not the Trumpians colluded with the Russians or whether Michael Flynn was trying to abduct an American citizen and send him to Turkey. Surely this can be tweeted about now. The law of the
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Trying To Sort Through The ObamaCare Jungle By Leonard Zwelling I have written a fair amount about ObamaCare aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 aka the ACA. In fact, I wrote a whole book about it called Red Kool-Aid Blue Kool-Aid that is available on amazon.com for about seven bucks. (Updated
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Ron’s Beaker Runneth Over: Cheers! By Leonard Zwelling I have a theory. I am pretty sure it’s absolutely perfect in predicting one’s longevity at an academic institution. The problem is that I can’t prove it because it’s a tautology. Saying it’s true can only be the case when it is proven to be so. Here
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Where Are The Surgeons? Where Are The Oncologists? By Leonard Zwelling MD Anderson is in a state of transition. Obviously. First, a Chief Operating Officer was appointed while the then-president remained in place atop the Pickens Tower of Babel. That COO displaced the Provost, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Financial Officer in the hierarchy of
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Wire Tapping Trump Tower And Curing Cancer: Equally Likely By Leonard Zwelling What is crucial to understand is that Mr. Trump better hope that he’s wrong about the wire tapping of Trump Tower by President Obama. First, the President, Obama or otherwise, cannot order such a wiretap. It’s illegal. Second, if there were a wiretap
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