Politics & Policy

Bush’s Three-Day Bike Ride with Wounded Vets

By Marc Siegel May 14, 2015

At the Bush Institute’s fifth annual Warrior 100K Mountain Bike Ride, which honors our men and women wounded in military service, former president George W. Bush characteristically did not talk ...

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My Patients Are Golfing, Not Me

By Marc Siegel April 20, 2015

Ever since the Balance the Budget Act of 1997 passed, almost every physician I know has been chaffing against the bit of the Sustained Growth Rate formula, under which our ...

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Calling Me Stupid

By Marc Siegel November 13, 2014

The arrogant remarks of Obamacare architect and MIT professor Jonathan Gruber should come as no surprise. He called the American people “stupid” and said that passage of the law relied ...

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The Travel Ban

By Marc Siegel October 16, 2014

In my 2005 book, False Alarm: The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear, I wrote about fear guides — mentors or leaders who could help us manage worry and learn ...

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The Fear and Science of Ebola

By Marc Siegel September 18, 2014

We should not be deathly afraid of Ebola. Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and author of the bestselling book Living Terrors: What America ...

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America, Ebola, and Fear

By Marc Siegel August 2, 2014

America, the land of the free, the home of the brave, is in a social-media panic because Dr. Kent Brantly, the 33-year-old Indiana physician who contracted Ebola while battling it ...

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A Cosmetic Solution for the VA

By Marc Siegel July 7, 2014

President Obama’s choice of Bob McDonald, former CEO of Procter & Gamble, to be the new head of the Department of Veterans Affairs reveals the president’s fundamental lack of understanding ...

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A Doctor’s Oath

By Marc Siegel February 14, 2014

For me and many other doctors like me, taking care of you has never been about the money. I have always considered it an honor and a privilege to be ...

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O’Care: The Truth Was Evident

By Marc Siegel October 31, 2013

Back in the summer of 2010, soon after the Affordable Care Act was passed, I looked out the window of my medical office to darkening clouds and thought of that ...

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Obamacare in Real Time

By Marc Siegel October 15, 2013

My patients are not signing up for the new Obamacare insurance at the New York State exchange. Not a single patient so far. A few have tried, but they haven’t ...