Category Archives: – Opinion

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

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Exclusive: Why did Dr. Nissen resort to secret tapes?

Posted on February 23, 2010 by admin

February 23, 2010– By Steven E. Greer, MD Many in the cardiology community are a bit confused as to why Dr. Steven Nissen resorted

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The unsustainable cost of cancer drugs

Posted on June 8, 2009 by admin

June 8, 2009- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD Leonard Saltz, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses how the targeted

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The SYNTAX trial of stent v CABG

Posted on October 8, 2008 by admin

October 8, 2008- by Steven E. Greer, MD A trio of cardiac experts from Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles discusses the SYNTAX trial that

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Interviews with Steven Greer, MD

Posted on January 23, 2000 by admin

A sampling of some interviews with Dr. Steven Greer