There Is No Safe Haven for Patients in the Privatized U.S. Health Care System.

Mike Magee TIME correspondent Karl Vick, in an article titled “What Happens When Amazon Takes on Health Care”, in February, 2018, wrote: “The U.S. health care system is the antithesis of Silicon Valley.” But is it really? Vick was referring then to the formation of a new, as yet unnamed non-profit joint venture between Jeff […]

How Is Your State Doing With The Covid Vaccine?

Data Source: Washington Post

CDC Interactive State Covid Vaccine Map.

First Post of 2021 – The Pledge and Allegiance.

Access Image HEREData Source – Washington Post Mike Magee Our new year has arrived. And Covid has more than confirmed the central tenet of “Code Blue” – there is no national health system in America, and little evidence of one “indivisible” nation. Rather we rely on a profit-driven Medical Industrial Complex that is committed […]

Last Post of 2020: Making Sense of the 70 Million Trump Voters.

Mike Magee On this final day of 2020, I continue to struggle with this 70 million Trump voter issue. On the surface, it feels like a broad recrimination of the goodness and intelligence of nearly half of American voters – rendering us “unexceptional” at best. Even if you grant targeted voters against abortion, or […]

Truth and Trust in 2021.

Mike Magee Exactly three years ago, veteran Health Policy expert, James A. Morone, Ph.D., made an interesting argument for single payer health care in the NEJM. In proposing a sweeping change that would directly address “the American patchwork”, assert “the norms of communal decency”, promote planning and efficiency, and empower “a righteous band of reformers, deeply […]

Lundberg’s Words: “System-shaking, even convulsing.”

Mike Magee Last week, Medscape’s editor-at-large, George Lundberg, wrote, “In 2017, I published a Medscape column that asked, “How many books will it take?” listing several titles that were intended to provoke repairs or rebuilds. Still nothing happened. Then came COVID, adding massive insult to injury of our already overpriced, overworked, bloated, inefficient, ineffective megalith […]

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