Good News! Health is Contagious You may know someone who can eat as much as he wants of anything he wants and never gain weight. However, to stay at a healthy weight most people past their teen years must constantly guard against such calorie packed temptations as prime rib, French fries, and pecan pie. […]
Read MoreIntroduction by John Baden Bob Flaherty, MD, contributed last week’s FREE Insights, “Pure Medicine”. This was the first half of his Wall Street Journal column on delivering medical care to Bozeman’s homeless. Ramona and I welcome you to join us in supporting Bozeman’s Warming Center through the non-governmental Human Resource Development Council, a 501 C-3 […]
Read MoreIntroduction by John Baden Robert Flaherty, MD is a family medicine doc who works at Montana State University and teaches in its WWAMI medical school program. He is also an extremely active and responsible member of our community. For example, Dr. Bob is the consulting physician for our Warriors and Quiet Waters foundation for wounded warriors. […]
Read More“Krugman’s depiction is not the way real economists would describe any of this.” – John Goodman in today’s FREE Insight Individuals working in the world of ideas lack sanctified immunity to the consequences of inconsistency. Others monitor what they write and expose errors, especially those linked to ideology. Here libertarians, aka classical liberals, have a […]
Read MoreEconomists’ Favorite Bible Verse – An intro to today’s FREE Insight from the Chairman If political economists were to pick a favorite Bible verse I suggest it would be Proverbs 4:7. King James Version reads: “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” Alas too many people neglect […]
Read MoreSally Satel, MD, is a resident scholar at The American Enterprise Institute and a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at Yale’s School of Medicine. I find her research and writing consistently well crafted and insightful. Sally has lectured in FREE’s programs for federal judges and law professors and received excellent reviews. Further, she is good […]
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This article appeared in New York Post on December 3, 2012. Washington is consumed with wrangling over how to deal with the specter of big automatic tax hikes that will hit Jan. 1 when the Bush tax cuts expire. It’s also the day that the sequester kicks in, which is the budget-wonk term for an automatic process […]
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Introduction by John Baden: Ramona and I often are out of town on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, Election Day. Since we are likely to be gone, we are registered to receive “absentee ballots.” How easy they are; mark, sign, stuff into envelopes, put on a stamp, and we’ve done a small portion of […]
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John Goodman’s article for FREE this week underscores a crucial flaw in ObamaCare. Not a flaw of legislation, regulation or execution, but a very serious flaw in understanding how medicine works. The fundamental unit of health care is the physician and the patient, making and discussing the diagnosis together and jointly deciding the best diagnostic […]
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Beginning to Map the DNA of Policy Reform: Dr. Flaherty’s “Beyond DNA: Lessons from the Born” Dr. Bob Flaherty, MD, of Montana State University is the author of this week’s FREE Insights. Bob has lectured at several FREE seminars, and he and his wife Carol (retired from MSU) are long and deeply trusted friends. They […]
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