Dr. Tom: A Healthcare Heuristic …
I am deviating from my plan to write more about the history of healthcare and the U.S. government because of Saturday’s Campaign for Guaranteed...
Dr. Tom: Happy birthday, Medicare …
I am writing this on the 52nd anniversary of the official signing by President Lyndon Johnson of the legislation enacting Medicare, generally regarded as...
Dr. Tom: Lions and tigers and socialized medicine. Oh, my! …
By Thomas R. Kluzak, M.D.
Whipping up fear, to which we respond in a visceral often irrational way, is a favorite tactic of politicians, and...
Dr. Tom: Thank you, Idyllwild …
Do you ever get overwhelmed with gratitude, with the feeling that you must be the luckiest person in the world? Followed, of course, by...
Dr. Tom: Happy, merry … whatever …
We had a friend in Kansas whose daughter became engaged to a Jewish man, whom we knew predominantly because he relayed a story of...
Dr. Tom: Civil discourse …
I began to write this column because I learned that one-third of U.S. citizens didn’t realize that the Affordable Care Act was the same...
Dr. Tom: Gratitude …
It is difficult to adequately express my gratitude to the firefighters and other first responders who saved our home from the Cranston Fire. Since...
Dr. Tom: Healthcare in the coming election …
I have been intending to write to explain some of the nuances of a single-payer healthcare system, commonly referred as “Medicare for All.” Confusion...
Dr. Tom: An update on the politics of healthcare
With all the hullabaloo about healthcare from politicians recently, I thought it was time to dust off my typewriter. I claim some...
Dr. Tom: Kitchen Table Campaign I
at I am a long-time member of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a national nonprofit pushing for the adoption of...