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Howard Smith, MD practices in DC, is associate professor at GW, a consultant for FairCode Associates and a senior associate for Plexus Consulting. His passion for and knowledge of health care in DC are unsurpassed.

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

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Until making its recommendations known about routine mammograms, no one ever heard of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Actually it...
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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...
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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...
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ObamaCare passes in the house: the road to better health care or deadly medicine?

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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...
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Are Americans moving to a public option?

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

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

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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...
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Another thing Jimmy Carter and Obama have in common: notch babies.

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In 1972, Congress made a very bad mistake. It changed the Social Security law that provided an annual automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for...
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Jay Rockefeller, the public option and the ghost of Adam Smith.

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Senator Jay Rockefeller was almost indignant when his amendment as well as Senator Schumer’s amendment to include the public option were voted...
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What are they thinking: is the public option dead?

We all had the experience of having a few beers with friends and then solve the problems of the world. Even though totally oblivious to the...
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