http://triggerband.com/blog Why healthcare in the US must change Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:27:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As physicians we practice modern medicine. However, we must not become confused about what this means. True, we may be more medically knowledgeable than our predecessors of a generation or two ago; but let this not suggest that our knowledge is reality and theirs was not. Reality is massive and ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2010/03/09/in-perspective-physicians-reality-and-medical-models-excerpt/ I urge all of you who support healthcare reform to write your U.S. representative and senators. You should write even if you do not support reform, because that is how the system works. Of course, political forces can do only so much to reform healthcare, but it is a good ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2009/06/15/letter-to-congress/ The Millennium Bridge of London was completed in 2000, hence its name. However, the bridge is better known for a lesson it provided in synchronization. Opening day for the pedestrian-only suspension bridge saw thousands of visitors crossing at once. Unexpectedly, the bridge began to sway back and forth, or oscillate ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2009/06/15/millennium-bridge-syndrome/ If all take, no one will have anything of value. If all give, everyone will have everything. Things of value are not primarily material. They are the kindness we show to one another; the services we offer, with or without recompense. Some Americans on the conservative end of the political spectrum ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2009/05/18/evil-of-self-perpetuity/ It is easy to point out what is wrong with healthcare. It takes somewhat more thought to discover why those problems exist, and still more thought to make policy recommendations about how to solve the problems. Here is such a recommendation, one that will improve healthcare financing. If your agenda ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2009/04/21/powertrain-healthcare/ When the federal government spends money, politicians like to say its outlays are financed by taxpayer money. In actuality, taxation is only one way the federal government can raise cash. Another way is to issue Treasury notes – that is, debt – to Americans and foreigners alike. But this is ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2009/03/03/politics-of-taxation/ Send in the soldiers (chemotherapy), fly the bombers overhead (radiation therapy), and roll the tanks over the enemy (surgery). Maybe with superior firepower, we can win the war on cancer. If drugs, radiation, and surgery are the weapons, cancer is the enemy, and physicians are the generals, then what is the ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2009/02/26/war-on-cancer/ At the center of the healthcare industry lies a corrupted system that is the source of innumerable troubles. That core is the medical profession. Medicine underwent a period of growth, reform, and cohesion in the latter part of the nineteenth century that formed the medical profession of today. Newly transformed, during ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2009/02/16/the-core-of-healthcare/ After the stock market declined sharply in September and October of 2008, it was revealed that investment manager Bernard Madoff had been running a giant Ponzi scheme for decades which allegedly stole $50 billion from his investors. But is it the biggest Ponzi scheme ever? Ponzi schemes “work” by promising and ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2009/01/30/world%e2%80%99s-largest-ponzi-scheme/ Some people think the growth of healthcare is a good thing for the United States economy. In fact, it is a tremendous burden. Let me provide a simple explanation that most can relate to. Is it a good thing for healthcare costs to grow as a percentage of your family ... http://triggerband.com/blog/2009/01/22/what-does-healthcare%e2%80%99s-growth-mean-to-our-economy/