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Monday Morning News Roundup
ecthompsonmd September 24, 2012

Monday Morning News Roundup Why am I up at 2:30 in the morning? Craziness. It would be so much different if I were actually on call. I’m not. I’m supposed to be asleep. For some reason, I’m wide awake. The NFL has become just as goofy as crazy as politics. After three weeks, it is clear that the replacement referees are not up to snuff. Yet, the NFL Commissioner and NFL owners are in a complete state of denial. Professional football is a highly emotional game. It is critically important to keep emotions in check. Yet,the replacement refs continually let the

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Fixing the Budget (Part Two)
ecthompsonmd August 12, 2011

Again, I’d like to point all of my readers to a nice interactive graphic on New York Times.com. Yesterday, I focused on domestic programs, foreign aid and the military. Today, I’m going to look at taxes and healthcare. Healthcare Enact Medical Malpractice Reform – according to the Congressional Budget Office this would save $8 billion in the short term and $13 billion in the long term. I could talk about malpractice reform for hours. I think it needs to be done. I also think that patients who are harmed should have some restitution. We can talk about this another day. Right

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What is wrong with us?
ecthompsonmd June 3, 2010

In the United States, we believe in equality. We like to believe that everybody has a chance at the American dream. We love to hear rags to riches stories. Whether it is Cinderella or the Prince of Persia or even Bill Gates, we’d all like to believe that we can be sitting at the head of that huge boardroom table. Yet, at the same time, we allow a system to exist where corporations get breaks that the rest of us don’t. We justify this dichotomy by saying, “well, they create jobs.” For some reason, this small phrase “justifies” our allowing corporations

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