Opinion: During a discussion on the future of health care, a clinician-turned-healthcare-executive told me that the way we “deliver health care” (not the same as “practicing medicine”) will change. It will be a “process”—a more mechanized one.
She spoke enthusiastically about the advantages, such as electronic health records. These can improve fraud detection in government programs with computerized cross-checking of services delivered and payments made.
This of course misses a larger point. If we didn’t have enormous government programs, fraud would not be so easy to perpetrate. It’s pretty hard to double-bill a patient when there is no middleman. Patients generally remember whether they were in the doctor’s office last month. A patient who was not in a coma would immediately let the doctor know that she did not have that colonoscopy.
A White Plains, New York residence pinpointed on a controversial handgun permit database was burglarized Saturday, and the burglars’ target was the homeowner’s gun safe according to local police.
After years touring Europe, native Tulsan Darell Christopher is bringing his veteran vocal styling back to the Jazz Depot January 20th at 5:00 p.m. An accomplished gospel, jazz, and R&B vocalist, and actor Christopher is a graduate of Holland Hall, The University of Tulsa, and Leadership Tulsa. Christopher earned his Masters degree in Theology from Phillips Theological Seminary.
A Utah businessman accused of running a fraudulent $350 million software scheme says the state attorney general arranged a deal to pay Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make a federal investigation into the software business disappear.
When I appeared on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight to debate gun control, I came armed with a copy of the Constitution of the United States.