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In a recent post, DrRich described the Regulatory Speed Trap, and alleged that our leaders (long before the Obama administration came along) have learned to use it to intimidate and control selected citizens and institutions when it is to their advantage to do so. The Regulatory Speed Trap, readers will recall, involves the [...]

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DrRich deeply, humbly, sorrowfully and most abjectly apologizes. When one fancies himself an ironist, a satirist, one must be very, very careful. The ironist attempts to illustrate the limitations of a point of view with which he or she strongly disagrees, by purporting to adopt that point of view, and then taking it [...]

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From all appearances, Republican voters are desperate for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to throw his hat into the ring, and announce that he’s running for the Republican nomination for President. And, while the governor has made dozens of absolutely definitive statements utterly denying that he is going to run, he nonetheless seems [...]

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It is a good thing that DrRich is not the only cardiac electrophysiologist writing in the medical blogosphere. If he were, the public would no doubt believe that all electrophysiologists are arrogant, self-important, sarcastic blowhards who insist on expressing themselves in the third person. Fortunately, that DrRich is uniquely afflicted in this manner, [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, a swarm of Federal agents from the Fish and Wildlife Service, armed with automatic weapons, suddenly raided the Gibson Guitar Company and confiscated raw materials and finished guitars, apparently because Gibson allegedly violated the Lacey Act in their importation of exotic wood.  Spokespersons from Gibson insist that they [...]

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DrRich has long argued that a non-negotiable necessity of Obamacare will be to gain complete control over the behavior of American physicians. Most of the important medical decisions which doctors make – the ones that cost the government the most money – will be forcibly centralized. That is, panels of experts will determine [...]

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  While Grand Rounds is normally the highlight of everybody’s week here in the medical blogosphere, this time it’s different. This week, we are all – each and every one of us  – completely distracted by the most wonderful sense of expectation and joy, to the exclusion of virtually every other human emotion. [...]

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A recurring theme of the CRB is that the rising cost of healthcare is the main internal threat to the continued viability of the US. Indeed, the very title of this blog reflects the chief mechanism which is being employed, fruitlessly and disastrously, in the attempt to reduce those costs. Recently, DrRich pointed [...]

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If we are ever to gain control of our healthcare spending, which is a necessity if we are going to avoid an economic catastrophe during the next couple of decades, we have to come to some agreement, as a society, on a few essential questions.  Chief among these questions is whether healthcare is [...]