What a Long, Strange Trip Americans Are Taking
Some things are worth travelling for: the soup dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai in New York’s Chinatown, for example. But according to Choe Sang-Hun in today’s NY Times, many Americans are joining the ranks of medical tourists, and heading to South Korea for that expensive surgery they’ve been putting off. And now, they can combine their [...]
Medicare’s “Never Events” Policy Belongs in Never-Never Land
Did you know that as of the first week of October, 2008, Medicare no longer reimburses American hospitals when certain “reasonably preventable” events, known as “never events” (because they are never supposed to happen) actually do happen? Kevin Sack reported this story in the October 1, 2008 NY Times, but it has yet to create [...]
What Goes Around…
If you were as repulsed as I was by the whitewash treatment received by former governor Elliot Spitzer by U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia, you will be pleased to learn that he will be leaving his post shortly for a job at New York law firm Kirkland & Ellis, according to Dan Slater, writing in The [...]