Michael Doring Connelly

Both renal dialysis and primary care provide critical services, but the magnitude of their benefits is vastly different. Dialysis serves...

The guidelines insurers use to deny claims are fundamentally different from those developed by clinical specialty societies. This...

Dr. Pearl’s recent post  predicting a “massive healthcare crisis” is right on point. He offers compelling evidence of the crisis’s...

A response to Anna Eisenberg’s “Deep Dive” Eisenberg’s six-part Deep Dive  into the U.S. healthcare system is a well-researched and...

The recent New England Journal of Medicine article, “ Defining Health Care Corporatization ,” provides a valuable historical overview of...

This opinion piece , titled Medicaid Is Overdue for a Big Beautiful Overhaul, calls for a significant reform of Medicaid and argues that...

Three decades ago, there were no healthcare companies in the top 25 of the Fortune 500. Today eight of the top 25 are healthcare...

Felice J. Freyer’s May 8 article in the Boston Globe  calls out that Americans’ trust in medicine is declining but that doctors can still...

It was my honor to give a presentation titled "The US Healthcare System: Can We Do Better?" this month at The Bur Oak Foundation , an...

The Milbank Memorial Fund is a wealth of information on US primary care. In particular, they have completed numerous studies on the...

This Wall Street Journal article powerfully portrays how trust has declined in healthcare. This sad outcome is the consequence of the...

Why isn’t the Medicare hospice benefit more accessible given it improves patient care and saves billions annually for tax payers? We...

Yet another powerful article demonstrates that Primary Care (PC) in the US is underpaid and facing a massive shortage - creating a...

A recent New England Journal of Medicine article discusses Medicare’s new regulatory efforts to improve primary care physician...

The Commonwealth Fund released a study comparing primary care in the United States to other industrialized countries. Primary care needs...

This editorial opinion by the Wall Street Journal regarding the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson misses the point. The...

Let me briefly connect some dots on the Wall Street Journal’s recent coverage of private Medicare Plans known as Medicare Advantage (MA)...

This Wall Street Journal editorial is misguided and directly conflicts with a major investigative report on Medicare Advantage (MA)...

A new health reform movement is on the rise, led by two Stanford surgeons, Casey and Calley Means, and a Johns Hopkins surgeon, Marty...

Here's another compelling argument that describes how improving primary care is the key to improving healthcare.