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Opinion: The Debate and Obamacare

September 12, 2024 7:46 amSeptember 12, 2024 7:46 am

As you can probably guess, I was concerned most during the presidential debate about the question of “Obamacare” by ABC and the rapid attack against Trump by Kamala Harris. By her own account as a California senator in 2018, she...

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HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Dressing Up His Real Record With Designs on Run for CA Governor

May 13, 2024 3:36 pmMay 14, 2024 12:41 pm

The 2024 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund was released May 6th. Before your eyes glaze over, this report gives us the current financial...

Medi-Cal and Its Deleterious Impact in California Medical Care: The Effect

March 27, 2024 5:00 amMarch 27, 2024 5:01 am

The effect of Newsom’s harsh Medi-Cal government run healthcare throughout California and beyond has been to herd both doctors and patients into a trancelike and untrusting state of mind. The affection between the two has turned into dislike. Call it...

Medi-Cal and Its Deleterious Impact in California Medical Care: The Cause

March 24, 2024 2:55 amMarch 25, 2024 10:25 am

Medi-Cal is California style government run healthcare and as such is the poster child of our national and even our global government healthcare systems. The concept of the government running anything, let alone medical care, is a mistake, a misunderstanding...

The Dangerous Side Effects of Physician Burnout

March 13, 2024 9:19 amMarch 13, 2024 9:19 am

This is the first in a series of editorials from Patrick Wagner, MD, offering his assessment of California medicine, as well as the bottom line of a private practice physician. It should be clear based on the lack of civility...

Gov. Newsom Heavily Edits CNBC Transcript of Trump for X/Tweet

March 11, 2024 9:03 amMarch 12, 2024 9:42 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom just posted on X/Twitter a heavily edited clip of former President Donald Trump on CNBC with Joe Kernen, doing a “see, I told ya so” that Trump would cut Social Security and Medicare. “Here is Donald...

Congress Should Act to Save Health Care Costs

September 14, 2023 10:45 amSeptember 14, 2023 10:46 am

As a mother of a young family, escalating health care costs and their impact on our budget are always at the top of my mind. Families like mine across the country continue to struggle as prices for health services are...