Category Archives: CMS

The Medical Advocate

Now available on Amazon. The Medical Advocate is an important book on the American healthcare system.

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The Miami Summit on Healthcare Spending Reduction

June 29, 2010 Produced and interviewed by Steven Greer, MD The Healthcare Channel and The University of Miami Health System hosted a roundtable discussion

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Steven E. Greer, MD on OANN discussing virus therapies

April 16, 2020

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The Medicaid Roundtable

Part 1: Medicaid primer Part 2: State spending on Medicaid

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Rudy Giuliani interviews Steven E. Greer, MD on WABC radio- May 6, 2020

May 6, 2020

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The Deans of Johns Hopkins and Miami discuss ACO’s

February 28, 2011- By Steven E Greer, MD Dean Miller of Johns Hopkins and Dean Goldschmidt of Miami discuss accountable care organizations,

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Senator Angus King discusses the slowdown in healthcare costs

July 9, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Senator Angus

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Plastic Surgeons Comment on Transgender Surgery

September 3, 2022- by Steven E. Greer, MD I spotted about a month ago how mastectomy surgeries performed to “transition” young females into “males” were being botched.

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The only thing we have to fear…is fear itself

March 13, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD Holy cow. The PGA Tour cancelled the Players Championship due to fears over the coronavirus.

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Exclusive: No proper clinical trials support the use of gender reassignment surgery

October 7, 2022- by Steven E. Greer, MD Gender reassignment surgery has insidiously grown as insurance companies and governments cover the procedures. Numerous medical centers are now quietly running gender dysphoria clinics. When conservative media outlets caught on to this … Continue reading

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I was in the delivery room when Obamacare was born

Update September 21, 2014- Obamacare is causing more people to go to the hospital, which

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Have state health commissioners dropped the ball?

With Obamacare exchange premiums increasing 7.5% year-over-year, this 2013 video is still relevant….

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Prepare for Comparative Effectiveness Research

February 8, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The HCC hosted a healthcare reform summit in 2009, after the ACA law was first announced

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Will the “public option” pass?

Many in the media are writing the obituary for the public option because key Senators have

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Sen. Ron Johnson on the need for early treatment of the Wuhan coronavirus

December 13, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD This is straight from my book, Tony’s Virus, chapters 8 and chapter 10.

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The best hospitals in the country are losing money. Why?

August 12, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD In the course of working on a medical book for the patient population, I just discovered this 2017 Forbes article that explains

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President Trump adopts plan by The Healthcare Channel to bring back drug manufacturing jobs

Update February 26, 2020 By Steven E Greer, MD It is happening for real. Politico reports that the Trump administration is planning on using various

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Anthony Fauci unjustifiably caused a mass panic

March 13, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD With one sentence in response to a question from a congressional hearing, an obscure medical

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The problem of erroneous diagnoses never falling off the chart

February 10, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD I discovered a whole new category of problems in the American healthcare system. It is the problem

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Don Berwick, MD: Waste in the American Healthcare System

Dr. Berwick, former Director of CMS and former President and CEO of IHI, discusses the percentage

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