Howard Smith

Guerrilla warfare against health reform: the doctor underground

Last summer, in his keynote address to the American Medical Association, President Obama laid out four objectives of health reform: (1...

This is what change looks like - ObamaCare gives the federal government dominion over our bodies

On March 21, 2010, after 219 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted yes, Nancy Pelosi proudly announced that, finally, health care was a right. However, rights came from the Creator not Congress. One thing was for...

This is what change looks like - the right to health care the day after health reform

During my career as a physician, I have come to regard health care as a human right, one of those inalienable qualities endowed to us by our creator that cannot be denied us. By this I mean, we have...

Mammograms under ObamaCare: Affordable care for all or a death sentence for some?

Until making its recommendations known about routine mammograms, no one ever heard of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Actually it has been around since 1984 when it was begun by the U.S. Public Health Service. In...

Concerned citizens for health reform meet in Montgonmery County this Wednesday evening

Regardless of your political preferences, if you are concerned about the direction to more government interference in healthcare than you are prepared to accept, take heed, A group of likeminded residents of Montgomery County, Maryland, both Democrats and Republicans, have...

How some Montgomery County citizens are tackling health care reform.

Regardless of your political preferences, if you are concerned about the direction to more government interference in healthcare than you are prepared to accept, take heart, A group of likeminded residents of Montgomery County, Maryland, both Democrats and Republicans...

ObamaCare passes in the house: the road to better health care or deadly medicine?

The House Bill passed by two votes. A win, though, is a win, although its passage may later prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. While many opponents expressed legitimate concerns about the risks the House Bill presented to the future...

Are Americans moving to a public option?

Some Democrats in Congress appear to be hanging all their hopes of success for a public option on polls which they interpret as indicating that Americans support a public option and this support is growing. Most of us have never...

Health reform has beome a real F.U.B.A.R.

Today, is a big day, The Finance Committee may vote on health reform. Everyone wants health reform, even key republicans like Bill Frisk and Bob Dole. In fact, they are onboard with the Democrat...

Should Obama win the Nobel Prize for Medicine this year or next year?

President Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize. The last President of the United States to do so was James Earl Carter in 2002 for his efforts in mediating peace in the Middle East. Need we...

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