Category Archives: – Opinion

Quarantining Ebola caregivers arriving from Africa is the right thing to do

Posted on November 6, 2014 by admin

https://youtu.be/CpGhHePi_MQ Update November 6, 2014- Despite more than 80% of responders in various polls feeling

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The NEJM editorial board blew it on anti-quarantine Ebola essay

Posted on October 28, 2014 by admin

October 28, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Jeffrey Drazen and the other editors of the New England Journal of Medicine rushed out an opinion

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The Dallas hospital administrators who botched Ebola were likely criminals, not just incompetent

Posted on October 19, 2014 by admin

October 19, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The mainstream media has correctly reported on the numerous missteps made by the Dallas

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Tenets of the Palo Alto business model

Posted on February 24, 2014 by admin

February 24, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD With so many young kids becoming billionaires overnight in Silicon Valley, you might be thinking

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Why the lack of outrage over smoking depicted in film and television?

Posted on January 20, 2014 by admin

January 20, 2014 To Senators Dick Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Sherrod Brown, and Edward Markey

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Alex Rodriguez’s PED schedule

Posted on January 12, 2014 by admin

January 12, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD CBS’s “60 Minutes” interviewed the man, Anthony Bosch, claiming to have been the pseudo-doctor

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Twitter interview with banned-for-life Wall Street tech analyst Henry Blodget

Posted on January 11, 2014 by admin

January 11, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Disgraced Wall Street sell-side technology sector analyst, Henry Blodget, who was banned for life by

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Harvard professors feel the impact in their pocketbooks of the ACA law that they helped pass

Posted on January 5, 2014 by admin

Update January 5, 2014- This is now being reported in the New York Times, two-months after our reporting.

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The biggest healthcare stories of 2013

Posted on December 23, 2013 by admin

December 23, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD Like a broken record, 2013 was yet another tough year for healthcare companies. Several forces are

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Did the GOP shut down the government just to please a special interest industry lobby?

Posted on October 19, 2013 by admin

October 19, 2013- By Steven E. Greer MD The United States government was partially shut down for more than two weeks in October.

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A Bridge Too Far: Patient classifications for LVAD reimbursement

Posted on September 16, 2013 by admin

September 16, 2013- By Ashish Shah, MD, Cardiac transplant surgeon, The Johns Hopkins Medical Center Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) arose from the ashes of the total artificial heart era.

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Little guy challenges Dr. Oz over copyright infringement and wins

Posted on September 12, 2013 by admin

September 12, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD Under certain circumstances, copyrighted text or video content can be used by others without

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The other casualty from Boston: Old-school TV news

Posted on April 27, 2013 by admin

April 27, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD On April 15, 2013, at 2:49 PM, two terrorist bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston

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Greer SE. Inside ObamaCare’s Grant-Making. Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal. June 4, 2012 Greer SE. Pork is Clogging CMMI’s Arteries. Letter section in The Wall Street Journal. June 20, 2012 Avastin for breast cancer

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Pork Is Clogging CMMI’s Arteries

Posted on June 20, 2012 by admin

June 20, 2012- in the WSJ– by Steven E. Greer, MD Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Director Richard Gilfillan’s reply (Letters, June 14) to my op-ed of June 5 says that my accusations “are baseless.” This was backed up … Continue reading →

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Inside ObamaCare’s Grant-Making: CMMI

Posted on June 4, 2012 by admin

June 4, 2012- In the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed section– by Steven E. Greer Early this year, I was briefly involved with one of the Affordable Care Act’s bureaucracies called

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Does Steve Nissen manipulate the media?

Posted on April 5, 2012 by admin

April 5, 2010 Opinion By Steven E. Greer, MD The New York Times recently ran a front-page story raising concern about expanding the indication for statins to people with normal cholesterol levels, per the Crestor JUPITER trial. The article mentioned … Continue reading →

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The inadequate FDA medical device safety surveillance system: a case study

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

January 25, 2012 By Steven Greer, MD I have worn contact lenses for more than twenty years without any problems. But recently,

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Will more Medicaid patients stress the system financially?

Posted on November 23, 2010 by admin

November 23, 2010- Interviewed by Steven Greer MD Under the ACA health insurance reform laws, approximately 16 million new Medicaid patients