Category Archives: Congress

Essay: How Google accidentally invented surveillance capitalism

Posted on March 30, 2019 by admin

March 24, 2019- by Steven E. Greer I read a few more pages of Surveillance Capitalism (it will be a tough slog to finish this). As

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Google’s Larry Page wants your medical records to be public for “research”

Posted on March 24, 2019 by admin

March 20, 2014-By Steven E. Greer, MD Charlie Rose interviewed Google founder Larry Page at the 2014 TED conference. During the talk, Mr.

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Apple, Google, and Amazon need to make their own hospitals

Posted on March 24, 2019 by admin

Update February 27, 2018- Well, they used my idea from two-years ago. Amazon, Warren Buffet,

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Essay: The real villain in the New Zealand massacre is the video game industry

Posted on March 21, 2019 by admin

March 20, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD I normally protect my soul by not watching grotesque videos. I have never seen the films of people jumping

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

Posted on March 20, 2019 by admin

September 4, 2010- by Steven Greer, MD The Commissioner of the FDA, Margaret Hamburg, could become the single biggest job creator

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Don Berwick, MD: Waste in the American Healthcare System

Posted on March 10, 2019 by admin

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

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The secret agenda of Neocons: Supporting the corrupt status quo in healthcare

Posted on March 9, 2019 by admin

January 29, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Kamala Harris announced her run for president. She gave a town hall talk laying out her platform.

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Essay: Opioids coming through the Mexican border are a national security risk

Posted on March 3, 2019 by admin

Update January 8, 2019- President Trump quoted from this story tonight during his talk from the Ova

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Big Time College Sports is not the worst thing about American universities

Posted on February 24, 2019 by admin

January 10, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD I was chuckling at an irrelevant essay in the NY Post complaining about how college football

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Don Berwick, MD: State health insurance exchanges

Posted on February 11, 2019 by admin

April 4, 2012

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Industry conflicts arise at PCORI threatening any real comparative effectiveness research

Posted on February 10, 2019 by admin

February 7, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) was created by the PPACA “ObamaCare” law in 2010.

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Have state health commissioners dropped the ball?

Posted on February 10, 2019 by admin

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

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Essay: The Sad State of Affairs for American Medicine Primary Care

Posted on February 1, 2019 by admin

December 26, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD I am so saddened by the state of our profession. I have been in different industries and unaware

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Senator Angus King discusses his bill to make medical device pricing transparent to the public

Posted on January 7, 2019 by admin

July 9, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Senator Angus King from Maine has proposed a a bill that would make the pricing of medical devices

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I was in the delivery room when Obamacare was born

Posted on January 4, 2019 by admin

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

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Essay: The Silos of American Healthcare Stifle Communication Between Providers

Posted on December 19, 2018 by admin

December 19, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD I have a clinical practice that treats chronic conditions, among other things. I recently ran across a

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Essay: Everything you say can and will be used against you

Posted on December 18, 2018 by admin

November 10, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD I keep telling people that “smart home” devices, such as Amazon’s Alexa, record everything

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Is polio making a comeback?

Posted on December 12, 2018 by admin

Update November 13, 2018- Parents of children who died from this “polio-like” illness are accusing the

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How pain pills almost killed my mother after elective knee surgery

Posted on November 30, 2018 by admin

May 21, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD My mother is in her 70’s and in good health except for debilitating knee arthritis. After considerable

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The Miami Summit on Healthcare Spending Reduction

Posted on November 29, 2018 by admin

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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