Doctors can be dangerous Do you know that 50% of doctors’ initial diagnosis is wrong?  How about the fact that only about 25% of their treatments have an underlying scientific-based best practice? Would you be surprised to find out that

One in four U.S. hospital patients suffers at least one healthcare-related injury.  In 1999, 44,000 – 98,000 patients died getting healthcare. By 2013, the number of deaths had risen to 251,000-400,000 patients died. Hospitals are one of the most dangerous

Are Drug Prices Really too High? In the last episode, we talked about why what we think about drug prices is often mythical. This episode focuses on Mandatory Government Drug Rebates that are the biggest cause of high drug prices.

High Drug Prices With Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar’s recent announcement that HHS is targeting rebates as one of the reasons for America’s high drug prices, Secretary Azar is the first who has finally identified one of the

Hostile healthcare One of the reasons our healthcare quagmire is so dangerous is the hostile and predatory nature of competition within the industry. In this episode, Tim and Tom highlight the key issues.

Healthcare is Predatory – Let’s Look at Drug Rebates The current debate about high drug prices and the focus on attacking rebates is the right discussion, but the approach is wrong, weak, and misleading.  It’s just expanding the current blame-game

Healthcare Reform is a mess Welcome to Season 2 of Healthcare Reform 2.0.  In this episode, we recap the past few months and tell you what we will discuss this season.  Check it out.

Gag Orders are the bain of healthcare Gag orders are killing healthcare and causing prices to skyrocket due to a lack of transparency. We discuss these issues. If providers, payers, and advocates can’t talk about how their deals work, particularly

Heart Attacks are deadly, so are the medicine and technology that underlies the care. On June 27th, 2018, Cohost Tom Loker had a nearly fatal heart attack.  This show discusses the events leading up to the attack, the emergency response,