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Enhancing Access Via Medical Freedom — Call It MSA Empowerment by Miguel A. Faria, MD

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Despite the assurances by managed care proponents that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other forms of managed care would solve the duel problem of spiraling health care costs and the rising number of the uninsured, that has not been the case. Public-private partnerships and managed care health initiatives which have been promoting the herding of […]

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Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government by Theda Skocpol

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Boomerang by Theda Skocpol, a professor of government and sociology at Harvard University, is subtitled, “Clinton’s Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics.” And indeed, this book is about politics, not about the reality of what went on in those crucial years. One comes out with the impression that the book

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Book Review of Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine. Reviewed by Conrad F. Meier

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Warning! If you have high blood pressure, consult your physician before reading Medical Warrior. Dr. Miguel Faria writes with such fervor and conviction about the looming dangers of a health-care system dominated by big government, big business, and big labor that people with medical problems may wish to read something far less provocative. In this

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Corporate Socialized Medicine Threatens Medical Profession

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Despite the media hullabaloo about a growing medical marketplace and the supposedly conservative changes being brought about by the November 1994 Republican revolution, corporate socialized medicine is making headway and becoming a reality, step-by-step, under the rubric of managed care and a mislabeled “free market.” The fact is we still face an ominous threat from

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Book review of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine. Reviewed by Donald C. Ausman, MD

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The book, Vandals at the Gates of Medicine by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D., is extremely interesting and unusual as it takes you through the history of primitive medicine, from the Ice Age 40,000 years ago to the Renaissance, in an attempt to solve the battle over health care reform that is now taking place. The author

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Book Review of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine: Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform. Reviewed by Jane M. Orient, MD

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According to an old Cuban proverb, “Camarón que se duerme, se lo lleva la corriente” (shrimp that sleep are swept away by the current). Some physicians may find Dr. Faria’s wake-up call as welcome as a blast of Arctic wind. In his view, the current policy of most medical organizations — “nonconfrontation and cooperation” —

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