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On Health Care Renewal, we have been decrying American health care dysfunction since 2004 (look here).  For years, the US consistently has had the most expensive health care system of any developed country.  For that exhorbitant price, it provides at best medicocre access to and quality of care. We have long contended that a major reason for health care dysfunction is perverse incentives,

Introduction: Conflicts of Interest in Health Care Our first post about conflicts of interest appeared on December 22, 2004, and was about "senior NIH scientists [who] were collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees and stock from industry."  We were not the first to be concerned about the problems resulting from financial relationships among health care professionals,

Today is the fifteenth anniversary of Health Care Renewal. As a reminder of where we began, below is a re-post of our welcome to the blog. Welcome to HCRENEWAL Health care around the world is beset by rising costs, declining access, stagnant quality, and increasingly dissatisfied health care professionals. Discussions with physicians and other professionals revealed pervasive concerns