Silicon Valley has become a malevolent force in our lives because it gives us what we want, so much so that it often crowds out what we need. This is by intention, and now so obvious that the tech giants can no longer hold their Venetian masks in place. Google gave up...

In last month’s blog I discussed how both parents must work to make ends meet. I was born in 1951 to an 18 year-old mother and a 22 year-old father. My mother was a homemaker and did not work. My father was a bricklayer, yet when I was 7 years old he was able to...

In November of 2018 CVS purchased Aetna in another giant health care merger. CEO Larry Merlo announced that this would allow CVS pharmacies to provide expanded health care services including “guiding discharged hospital patients through their at-home plans and...

  In her book The Smartest Kids in the World, Amanda Ripley explains how the Finns developed the best educational system in the world according to international testing standards (PISA testing). About 25 years ago Finland gave up on a system very much like “No...

When President George W. Bush moved to include drug coverage benefits for Medicare patients he had to secure the support of Big Pharma. The drug companies demanded and obtained two important concessions: (1) Americans may not purchase their medications from foreign...

There are now close to 1000 direct primary care (DPC) family medicine practices across the country, yet in most states the legal status of DPC remains murky. In 22 states laws have been passed that say that DPC is not insurance and not subject to the state insurance...