Craig B. Garner
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View article: A World Without COVID
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Millions of people have lost their lives to COVID. Tens of millions lost family and friends to COVID. Some of the losses, while possibly less significant, may be more profound. This includes blowing out candles on the celebratory birthday …
View article: Much Ado About COVID
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Once upon a time severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused the 2019 novel coronavirus, a pandemic commonly known as COVID-19 or simply COVID. Considered to be of zoonotic origin, COVID is closely related to bat co…
View article: On the Origin of Pandemic
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Civilization remains under heavy attack, and for the first time in modern history almost all nations around the globe unify in battle. The common enemy, Planet Earth, has waged war against homo sapiens since the species first ventured away…
View article: Here Comes the Flood
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Advancements in technology over the past few decades have changed the ways in which society approaches communication, eclipsing even the most progressive science fiction from Yesteryear. Too much enlightenment, however, can create fundamen…
View article: The Insanity of Treating the Insane
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The concentric circle occupied by the brain both sick and sickened may as well be infinite, at least to the extent modern medicine understands co-occurring disorders. Addiction’s price tag on society, an estimated $740 billion annually in …
View article: Infecting the Hippocratic Oath
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Somewhere deep within the labyrinth of regulations promulgated since Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HIT…
View article: How to Spell Health Care Without R-E-F-O-R-M
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Federal and state courts share the burden in resolving domestic health care disputes, although the federal system bears the heavier load when it comes to Medicare and the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as…
View article: What to Do About Broken
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An adjective, the word “broken” encompasses a multitude of meanings, most of which identify a magnitude of concern, while very few provide comfort. Recognizing that which is broken often remains elusive, creating a daunting challenge when …
View article: Health Care and the Laws of Nature
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When science prevails over the laws of nature, controversy is near. Stories from antiquity warned against such hubris, like poor Icarus who plunged to his death during a maiden voyage with wings made from feathers and wax. Zeus intervened …
View article: Health Care in F Minor
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If health care was a piano, acute care hospitals and their 14,400 different codes under the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, tenth edition (“ICD-10”) practice C major scales on a regular bas…
View article: When Hospitals Give Until it Hurts
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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, in part, intended to create opportunities to purchase affordable health insurance by those previously priced out of the market. Through subsidies, rebates, mandates and tax credits, at b…
View article: The Upside to Broken
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The American health care system finds itself on the defense against yet another partisan attack, this time in the form a massive tax code overhaul. In the process of implementing record-breaking tax cuts throughout the national economy, th…
View article: A Place for Death in Health Care
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When President Obama signed the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, the word “death” appeared in the 903 pages of Public Law 111-148 a mere fifteen times. However, the concept of death plays an integ…
View article: An Unhealthy Congressional Mess
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The successes of modern medicine are the product of painstaking research, unprecedented and sometimes unavoidable patience, and a bit of good fortune, but the innumerable losses of the past lie in the shadows of each monumental breakthroug…
View article: The Senator Will See You Now
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On May 4, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act of 2017 (“AHCA”) by a picayune margin of just four votes. Commonly referred to as the most recent legislation designed to “repeal and replace” the 2010 P…
View article: The House that Cried Wolf
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When attempting to make such a major change, our nation’s political process mixes constitutional principles with laws passed by federal and state governments, all of which is subject to veto by the executive branch or review by the judicia…
View article: A Time to Kill HIPAA
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The greatest obstacle standing between American health care and the elusive, omnipotent digital medical record turns 21 this summer, the equivalent of a modern-day Methuselah in an industry defined by zeros and ones. Born the same year www…
View article: The Intricacies of the Modern Health Care Behemoth
The Intricacies of the Modern Health Care Behemoth Open
Known by some as the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, others by the often sardonic alias “Obamacare,” and most recently highlighted through contentious “repeal and replace” rhetoric, health care reform has reemerged as a ho…
View article: Repealing the Affordable Care Act – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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As a nation, we depend upon those in highest office to monitor such changes, adding provisions where applicable and paring down what is no longer practical. Much of the divided nation fears that come January 20, 2017, Barack Obama’s legacy…
View article: Supreme Court Decision Adds More Confusion to False Claims Act
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As modern medicine continues its attempts to bridge the gap between body and mind to provide more comprehensive care for patients, so too must the Federal Government address this gray area while endeavoring to regulate care for those less …
View article: Health Care's Unfinished Bridge
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Every era relies on the intuition of a talented few in its search for scientific breakthroughs. Herodotus rejected the notion the Earth was flat, and in particular its description on the Shield of Achilles in Homer’s Iliad. Some 29 centuri…
View article: Health Care is Not One Word or One Person
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With the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court has lost a brilliant legal scholar and formidable protector of the U.S. Constitution. Scalia both earned respect and instilled fear during his 30-year tenure supervising America…