Archive for Jane M. Orient M.D.

Your Money and Your Life: The Price of Universal Health Care

Although often recognized as sacred, human life has not been considered the top priority in the hierarchy of values. Human beings have willingly sacrificed life to preserve honor or virtue, to defend the faith or the nation, or to protect family or the family’s livelihood (property). Civilized nations have, however, generally recognized the right to [...]

1Dec2006 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

America Needs Socialized Medicine?

Jane Orient, M.D. is executive director, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Paul Krugman attributes “America’s Failing Health” to the lack of Canadian-style socialized medicine and thus to the persistence of a free-enterprise sector in American medicine (New York Times, August 27). Because “interest groups are too powerful, and the antigovernment propaganda of the right [...]

1Feb2005 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 1 comment | Continued

Let’s Not Throw American Medicine into Boston Harbor

Jane Orient, M.D., is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the FEE Board of Trustees. She is the author of Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care and a new novel about where the money is in medicine, Sutton’s Law. The ongoing [...]

1Jul1998 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

Wildlife in the Marketplace

Dr. Orient is an internist in solo private practice. She serves as the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She wrote Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Health Care (Crown, 1994). This compendium of nine articles takes examples from the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1700-1763, to emerging Africa, to [...]

1Apr1996 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

Book Review: Public Policy and the Quality of Life: Market Incentives versus Government Planning by Randall G. Holcombe

Greenwood Publishing Group • 1995 • 190 pages • $55.00 This book asks a lot of the right questions. On general issues, it is a primer on free-market solutions. It considers how private regulatory mechanisms might work. It shows how market incentives could be harnessed to protect the environment and reduce pollution. It highlights important [...]

1Dec1995 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

What NBC Didn’t Tell You About Health-Care Reform

Dr. Orient practices private medicine in Tucson. She is also Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. How much education will $2.5 million buy on prime-time network television? The NBC two- hour special “To Your Health,” aired June 21, promised to provide a “vigorous, energetic discussion” that would “speak clearly” about “the [...]

1Nov1994 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 1 comment | Continued

The Freeway to Serfdom

Dr. Orient practices private medicine in Tucson. She is also Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have all the medical care you needed or wanted, without ever worrying about the bill? And wouldn’t it be wonderful to drive to work every day without ever paying a [...]

1Nov1993 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 2 comments | Continued

Eco-justice

Dr. Orient is a physician in private practice in Tucson, Arizona. In a little noticed speech last year, William Reilly, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), boasted of past success and set the agenda for the future: “George Bush said the polluters would pay if they broke the law and during the past three [...]

1Sep1993 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

Do No Harm

This article is adapted from a statement by Dr. Orient on behalf of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons before the White House task force on health care reform, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., March 29, 1993. I am Jane Orient, Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. I am in [...]

1Jun1993 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 1 comment | Continued

What Is a Doctors Relative Worth?

Jane Orient, M.D., is in the private practice of medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She is also an associate in internal medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Congress has decided that some doctors aren’t worth nearly as much as they get paid. Their “inflated” fees are one of the primary targets of the [...]

1Sep1989 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

One Complaint per Customer, Please

Jane Orient, M.D., is in the private practice of medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She is also an associate in internal medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Paying for what you get, in the hospital at least, is becoming outmoded. Medicare now pays hospitals on the basis of their patients’ diagnoses, and patients [...]

1Aug1987 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

Who Will Control Medical Care?

Jane Orient, M.D., is in the private practice of medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She is also an associate in internal medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Recent changes in Medicare make it difficult for patients to retain control over their own medical care. Fear that the Medicare trust fund may be bankrupt [...]

1Mar1986 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 2 comments | Continued

Comparable Worth versus Civil Liberty: Are Feminists Pro-Choice?

Jane M. Orient, M.D., is In the private practice of medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She is also adjunct assistant professor of Internal medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Though enshrined in the 1984 platform of the Party of New Ideas, the comparable worth concept was both proposed and demolished in 1928 by [...]

1Jun1985 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

Book Review: The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod

(Basic Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, New York 10022), 1984 • 241 pages, index • $17.95 In the belief that nice guys always finish last in the marketplace, an arena of harsh Darwinian natural selection, many propose to ration freedom. The Invisible Hand, assuring that the market works to the advantage of all [...]

1Dec1984 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 1 comment | Continued

Demand Side Economics in Medicine

Jane M. Orient, M.D., is in the private practice of medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She is also adjunct assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Suppose that a pot is boiling over on the stove. What should you do? a) put a heavy lid on it; or b) turn [...]

1Nov1984 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

Criminal Liberty and Civil Liability: Can Free Enterprise Survive?

Jane M. Orient, M.D., is in the private practice of medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She also is adjunct assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. A lame, gray-haired contractor complains that a lumber company employee is dilatory in serving him. The burly young man thereupon shoves his customer down [...]

1May1983 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 1 comment | Continued

Collectivism in Medicine: An Exception or a Hook?

Jane M. Orient is in the private practice of medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She also is adjunct assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Since the time of Bismarck, most schemes for collectivism have started with health care. Far more support can be garnered for national health insurance than [...]

1Jun1982 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 1 comment | Continued

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