7 safe driving habits to adopt

Each time you take your focus off the road, you're putting your life and the lives of others at risk. According to the National Highw...

The New Patient Phone Call

When a new patient calls to schedule an appointment, I recommend getting as much information on that initial phone call as possible. I’ve fo...

The Tax-and-Spend Health-Care Solution

A Wall Street Journal Oped, From July 29 2018. Now that 30 days have passed, I can post the whole thing. The Tax-and-Spend Health-Care So...

Post-Apocalyptic Health Care

Post-apocalyptic life in American health care is a fantastic blog post on the state of American health care and insurance. (HT Marginal Rev...

Modigliani-Miller theorem repealed, reports PBS

Link here.   In case you don't get it, see previous posts on buybacks here  and here , that explain how buybacks do not affect share...

Dentrix G7 Health History - My Favorite New Feature

Dentrix G7 is here and it is awesome! It includes some exciting new features. One of my personal favorites is the new Dentrix Health History...

Keep yourself safe - avoid and report Medicare scams

With Medicare Open Enrollment just around the corner--Oct. 15 – Dec. 7--and new Medicare cards in the mail, be on the lookout for scam artis...

Options on health insurance

Alex M. Azar, U.S. secretary of health and human services, published an interesting OpEd in the Washington Post , describing a clever health...

Maximizing a Provider's Time in the Schedule

It can be difficult for a new front office team member to learn the ins and outs of scheduling. It can be even more challenging if they have...

Trade uncertainty and investment

My colleague Steve Davis has a nice post quantifying economic uncertainty due to the trade war, and its emerging impact on investment. St...

Intellectual property and China

Let's transfer more technology to China , writes Scott Sumner, with approving comments from Don Boudreaux . They're exactly right, s...

Lira Crash

No, a currency board won't save the Lira, contra Steve Hanke's oped in the Wall Street Journal . Steve: Turkey should adopt a curre...

Links: trade, housing, taxes

Three interesting links caught my attention today: 1)  Prefab housing in Berkeley  and Alex Tabarrok Commentary on Marginal Revolution . ...

Free Trade or Managed Mercantilism

Mary Anastasia O'Grady's WSJ coverage of Nafta talks included the following tidbit auto-sector “rules of origin,” which dictate ho...

Presenting Alternate Treatment Plans

When I was growing up, my dad worked for a company that produced high performance sports cars. The cars had a Lamborghini engine and cost ab...