Good stuff. An excerpt:
The Harvard-trained medical professor is at least open about his deals; his latest HuffPo column openly admits taking money from Safeway, then quicky urges Congress — under lobbying by Safeway CEO Steve Burd — to emulate the grocery chain’s health plan. Safeway cut costs partly by incentivizing patients to exercise and quit smoking. But Ornish never mentioned its less pleasant side: the plan shifted costs to patients, spiking deductibles and requiring people to pay 20 percent “coinsurance” when they got sick. The net impact was to raise costs for many diseased people who, through no fault of their own, were not well enough to meet Safeway’s incentives. These problems have all been outlined by one Dr. Don McCanne, who you might know from such websites as…. the Huffington Post. Let’s see if the good doctor contributes there again.





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