David Saltzman's Blog 

The gross underestimation of the costs of running Medicare is a matter of record, and began just shortly after its enactment in 1965. We baby boomers combined with the current level of unemployment have just exacerbated an existing problem. ...

Regardless of how you position or market your practice, one thing we all agree on is that you can’t be all things to all people all the time. ...

“But I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.” That was how President Obama characterized our industry on August 6, 2009....

A perfect game is defined by Major League Baseball as a game in which a pitcher (or combination of pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and in which no opposing player reaches base. ...

Napoleon Bonaparte cautioned, “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.” ...

Apple’s iPhone was disruptive technology and a game changer. Google, hungry for new markets, released its own operating system, known as Android, and has begun taking market share from Apple....

In Aesop’s fable, a farmer and his wife own a goose that lays a golden egg every day. For a while, they revel in their good fortune but soon their baser instincts take over. ...

At a recent meeting, conversation centered around the coming attempts to overturn Public Law 111-148 (formerly known as H.R.3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). Some are hopeful of a quick finding that the law is unconstitutional. ...

Watching jockey Calvin Borel win his third Kentucky Derby last Saturday was about as exciting as two minutes can be. Thinking about the race as a sales metaphor isn’t nearly as exciting, but it is instructive. ...

Richard S. Foster is the chief actuary for Medicare. Congressional Democrats, who friended him in 2004 when he raised questions about the Bush Administration may be frantically unfriending him today. ...

A reader of my “To Your Good Health” column recently wrote to discuss his concern about what he believes to be the systemic disaster that will ensue from PPACA. ...

The irrationality of tax codes and the equally irrational behavior they often generate have been a constant source of amusement for many of us over the years. With that in mind, I couldn’t help but chuckle over a recent culinary development in New York....

In military circles, there’s an old saying that the generals and armies are well-prepared to fight the last war. ...