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Commentary Guellec: If You Can't Pay For Chemotherapy - You'll Die!!

Commentary, October, 24 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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It is a shame that we all can't, or won't, see what is going on! Taxol, a drug discovered by the government and used for many of the 100 or so different kinds of cancers has gone generic.

Commentary Guellec: The Unraveling Safety Net

Commentary, May, 18 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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In all of American medicine, the only place that Federal Law guarantees Americans the right to a physician 24-7 is in the Emergency Room. This is because of the 1986 "anti-dumping" law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTAL...

Commentary Guellec: The Abandonment of the patient In profit-driven health care

Commentary, April, 21 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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Profit-driven healthcare is what we have today, but the end may be in sight, at least the former JAMA Editor George D. Lundberg (Journal of the American Medical Association) thinks so. In his explosive new book ÒSevered Trust: Why American Medicin...

Commentary Guellec: Cuba offers free medical education to US minority students

Commentary, March, 27 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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ItÕs all about altruism man, not politics. It would be unthinkable in the US to offer much of anything for nothing, let alone a 6-year medical education, but the Cubans have been doing this for many countries in the past, and now Americans may app...

Commentary Guellec: Violence is a Public Health Problem

Commentary, March, 10 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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According to the FBI there are 240 million firearms in America today. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop identified violence as a public health issue in 1991. The Centers for Disease Control tells us "the United States may be a more viole...

Commentary Guellec: Patients blamed for medical errors

Commentary, January, 28 2001 Dorothy Guellec
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The American Medical Association believes it may have discovered a root cause for the many medical errors - patients themselves. Isn't that cute. Rather than focus on the incredible complexity of the system and processes at work and everything nee...

Commentary Guellec: Psst. The real scoop on Patient Assistance Programs

Commentary, December, 26 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Drug companies are giving away medications if you know how to ask. This is the best-kept secret because it is not widely known. All of the top 30 pharmaceutical companies make prescriptions available free, and these programs are horribly underutil...

Commentary Guellec: Assisted suicide and Euthanasia: the illusion and faade

Commentary, November, 30 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Why are the long-standing ethics of our health care system suddenly so threatened? Maybe it is all about money, or is it? HMOÕs already induce physicians to keep costs low, using a combination of financial rewards or punishments, which create in m...

Commentary Guellec: Assisted suicide and Euthanasia: the illusion and façade

Commentary, November, 30 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Why are the long-standing ethics of our health care system suddenly so threatened? Maybe it is all about money, or is it? HMO’s already induce physicians to keep costs low, using a combination of financial rewards or punishments, which cre...

Commentary Guellec: Billions Spent Marketing Drugs to Consumers

Commentary, October, 16 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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In the two years since the FDA began an experiment to let the mass media broadcast the prescription-drug message directly to consumers, the pharmaceutical industry has shelled out a whopping $1.3 billion per year on consumer ads. That dwarfs the $...

Commentary Guellec: RU puzzled, fed up?

Commentary, October, 05 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Last Thursday, September 28,2000, the landscape for abortion really changed. It has been a long time coming. The pill called RU-486 was developed in 1980. and in 1982 the first successful human testing was reported in France. After 10 long years o...

Commentary Guellec: Healthcare according to Ralph Nader

Commentary, September, 12 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Ralph Nader is the only candidate who supports Universal Healthcare for all as a human right. Health, not merely illness should be a public concern. We could save at least $36 billion a years if we had a "paperless hospital system." As Business We...

Commentary Guellec: Investing in Death Benefits Ð Exploiting AIDS patients

Commentary, August, 27 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Once the domain of the terminally ill, viatical settlements or arrangements Ð the reassignment of a life insurance policy to a third party in return for a cash settlement Ð are set to explode in the next decade as the market evolves to include hea...

Commentary Guellec: Investing in Death Benefits – Exploiting AIDS patients

Commentary, August, 27 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Once the domain of the terminally ill, viatical settlements or arrangements – the reassignment of a life insurance policy to a third party in return for a cash settlement – are set to explode in the next decade as the market evolve...

Commentary Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare systemÕs decline

Commentary, July, 19 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization Òis to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the worldÕs economy, country by country, as possibleÓ. He is right,...

Commentary Guellec: The dark side of the Canadian Healthcare system’s decline

Commentary, July, 19 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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My wise uncle told me that the real meaning of Globalization “is to make the world safe for the American and other multinational corporations to penetrate and take over as much as the world’s economy, country by country, as possibl...

Commentary Guellec: A Single Payer System for the U.S.?

Commentary, June, 29 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Americans are not correctly informed about the Canadian system. This may or may not be a conscious media effort, but I want to set the record straight. Healthcare delivery in Canada reflects the countryÕs principles, in particular universal entitl...

Commentary Guellec: Death in America

Commentary, May, 24 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Most people do not take hunger in America seriously, but add this to cutbacks in food stamps, the daily need for insulin, and low wages, and then we really have a life-threatening situation here. If diabetics donÕt eat, they can develop ketoacidos...

Commentary Guellec: Denial of Food and Medicine

Commentary, April, 26 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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The embargo is driving Cuba toward crisis and is causing significant suffering and death. Obtaining licenses from the departments of Commerce and Treasury to sell goods to Cuba (Cuban Democracy Act of 1992) on a contract-by-contract basis is a lab...

Commentary Guellec: HMO Execs Debate How to Heal Their Image

Commentary, April, 07 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Quietly HMO top brass have been meeting in Texas to find ways to improve Òtheir battered public image.Ó They are divided as to how to do this. The three big ones United Health Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Humana suggest industry wide c...

Commentary Guellec: The Problem of Experimentation on "Decisionally Incapacitated" Humans

Commentary, March, 10 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Five of the world's 10 leading causes of disability are psychiatric depression, alcohol abuse, bipolar mood disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. These disorders have genetic determinants and physical correlates. In the past ...

Commentary Guellec: Insurance?

Commentary, January, 31 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Damaris Urena and Marcus Cruz are today January 4th mourning the loss of their 4-month old baby. It did not have to happen. According to the Daily News the family's ordeal began December 15th at about 5 a.m. when the baby awoke with a high fever c...

Commentary Guellec: End of Century Musings

Commentary, January, 12 2000 Dorothy Guellec
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Malaysia is being pushed to modernize and this is attracting multinational companies and putting pressure of their healthcare system. The country's extensive public healthcare system can no longer provide free care on demand, promoting an expansio...

Commentary Guellec: Patient Rights vs. Distributive Justice

Commentary, December, 21 1999 Dorothy Guellec
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The right of the patient to direct his or her medical care and health outcome, known as patient autonomy, and the right of society to control and allocate "limited resources", known as distributive justice will certainly collide. In an ideal world...

Commentary Guellec: Things Are Never As They Seem and yet They Are Always As They Seem

Commentary, November, 29 1999 Dorothy Guellec
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What this title suggests is that we have to look between the lines and live between the lines. Life is almost always terribly complex. Readers of this commentary may feel convinced that the business model does not fit healthcare, so I need not pre...

Commentary Guellec: Health Care Shouldn't Be Commercial

Commentary, November, 10 1999 Dorothy Guellec
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Certain things should be "off limits to commerce" Healthcare in my view can be compared to Education which, so far, has not been totally privatized. If shareholders must be satisfied, then patients' interests will be compromised. The way managed c...

Commentary Guellec: Marketizing HMOs to Latin America

Commentary, October, 02 1999 Dorothy Guellec
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The number of for-profit health care organizations has quadrupled in the pas 17 years, a study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation said. For-profit HMO's were 18% of all plans in 1981 but increased to 74% by 1998. The proportion of enrollees ...

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