The Practice of Medicine
Medicine was practiced in the colonies long before 1751. Hospital practice began with Ben Franklin's founding the Pennsylvania Hospital -- for decades the only one in America. Dr. Thomas Bond envisioned hospitals as charities, but Franklin leaned toward the notion hospitals might pay for themselves by getting sick people back to work.
In 1913 the Flexner Report, supported by the Rockefeller family, urged a research focus by teaching hospitals, and during World War II Vannevar Bush devised federal funding to extend Franklin's plan to get sick people back to work.
In fact, life expectancy expanded by almost forty years, and early retirement usually seems to replace sickness costs as a limit. Some day, Franklin's vision may triumph, but require another century. Successful in combating failure, we have --so far-- failed to balance the cost of success with the expense of achieving it.
- Health Savings Accounts: Steps To Lifetime Health Insurance From 1981 to the Present.
- Surmounting Health Costs to Retire: Health (and Retirement) Savings Accounts
- Health Reform: Changing the Insurance Model At 18% of GDP, health care is too big to be revised in one step. We advise collecting interest on the revenue, using modified Health Savings Accounts. After that, the obvious next steps would trigger as much reform as we could handle in a decade.
- HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNT: New Visions for Prosperity If you read it fast, this is a one-page, five-minute, summary of Health Savings Accounts.
- Health Reform: Children Playing With Matches
- Second Edition, Greater Savings. The book, Health Savings Account: Planning for Prosperity is here revised, making N-HSA a completed intermediate step. Whether to go faster to Retired Life is left undecided until it becomes clearer what reception earlier steps receive. There is a difficult transition ahead of any of these proposals. On the other hand, transition must be accomplished, so Congress may prefer more speculation about destination.
- Handbook for Health Savings Accounts New volume 2015-07-07 23:31:01 description
- Philadelphia Medicine Several hundred essays on the history and peculiarities of Medicine in Philadelphia, where most of it started.
- Health Reform: A Century of Health Care Reform Although Bismarck started a national health plan, American attempts to reform healthcare began with the Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive era. Obamacare is just the latest episode.
- Medicine New volume 2012-07-04 13:34:26 description
- Health: Philadelphia New volume 2014-08-04 22:18:40 description
- Computers, Websites, and other Digital Gadgetry What is novel today is old-hat tomorrow; but what is old-hat to someone today is still novel for someone else. These are our own thoughts about a variety of electronic novelties, for whoever finds them of interest.