Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE As the healthcare debate heats up the meaning of consumer driven healthcare (CDHC) needs repeating. The true meaning of CDHC has been bastardized by the healthcare insurance industry as represented by Health Savings Accounts (HSA). The healthcare......

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP, MACE Mr. Obama has promised a quick, hard push to overhaul the healthcare system. Americans can expect a quick push to build a larger federal bureaucracy, impose price controls, restrict the use of new medications and technologies,......

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE   President-elect Barack Obama is inviting Americans to spend part of the holiday season talking about health care -- and report back to him. He is encouraging average Americans to host informal gatherings to brainstorm about how to improve the U.S. system. Thomas A. Das...

  Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE As a Columbia College student in the late 1950’s I worked in a Catskill Mountain hotel resort as a waiter during the summers to earn money for college tuition and expenses. I had a great job in a wonderful adult only hideaway hotel at the end of a winding road. T...

  Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE Our healthcare system is a mess. Medicare and social security in its present form will result in a 100 trillion dollar a year deficit in 75 years. The solution to Repairing the Healthcare System is relatively simple. The key to the solution is social responsibility by ...

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE Our financial crisis can be an instrument of change in a positive direction. America’s obesity epidemic is a weapon of mass destruction destined to cause another financial crisis. An increase in the complications of chronic disease can cause an economic meltdown if the ...

  Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE A great comment was sent to me by an Emergency Physician in reference to the increased Emergency Room visits despite the increase in insured people in the state of Massachusetts. He referred me to his blog. Unfortunately the destined to fail Romney healthcare plan ...

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP, MACE   Why would the Senate initially vote against S. 3101 and H 6331? Why would President Bush threaten to veto it? “ Nine Republicans who had voted against cloture last week pivoted to produce a potentially veto-proof 69-30 vote in favor of linking another temporary ...

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE When citizens understand an issue they are motivated to act. They can put enough pressure on politicians so they act for the citizens’ vested interest. After all, the United States government was created by the people for the people. HR 6331 called for a stop to the 10....

  Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE   The administrative difficulties in the physicians’ work environment are increasing physician discontent. “In a survey last year of nearly 2,400 physicians conducted by a physician recruiting firm, locumtenens.com , 97 percent said they were frustrated by...