Rural Doc Alan
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Medicare Advantage Plans Cost 452 Billion Dollars
Note to subscribers: I’ve written two previous posts about Medicare Advantage funding, the first about where the money goes and the second raising the issue as to why the vast amount of overpayments to companies involved in offering Medicar...
Why Medicare Advantage Is Not Called Fraud
In my previous Substack on government promoted waste and abuse, I wrote about the big variation in prosecuting who the various fraud units of our national and state government go after. In the spring of 2026, the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
Medicare Advantage Plans Again
I’ve said many times there are only four groups of people who are happy with the Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The first group is the private equity stockholders, the second group is the large insurance companies getting rich off of taxpay...
Medicine Safety
In medicine, the terms off-label, slow-acting, and dosage are familiar names on their own, but there is an unrecognized link between these three terms which explains how in recent years much of what has gone wrong with the public conversati...
Pregnancy Weight Gain Reconsidered
Note: As I work on developing my Pregnancy Your Way application, I run across pregnancy information that seldom makes it into the prenatal exam room much less to the pregnant woman herself. The whole point of my application is to put this k...
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I am a retired obstetrician who in over 40 years of practice delivered 6000 babies with no maternal mortalities. My goal is to provide pregnant women and their families with the information they need to make informed choices in their pregnancies.
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