Are cash-only medical practices only limited to the wealthy?

When you think about it, how much care does the average patient really need? Over at Better Health, Val Jones writes that 75 percent of patients require an average of 3.5 office visits annually for all the medical care they need. That works out to about 1 hour of a physician’s time per year.

How much is that worth? Well, the going rate is about $300. For a year. Read more »

Narrow-mindedness is one of the flaws of human cognition.  Often times, perceived conflicts of interests or bias may just be due to narrow-minded thought.

For instance, George Bush decided to invade Iraq.  While I do not want to argue the merits or demerits of the invasion, likely one of the reasons Bush decided to invade the country was because he wanted the U.S. to have a steady supply of oil.  Is oil that important?  From Bush’s Read more »