Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
An amazing article. I have the mag at home, but Brill did an excellent job on that one.

One that everyone in this thread should read.
Brill's bias obvious pretty early on in the article. When you compare individual, uninsured rates which are extremely high, to medicare rates, which are extremely low, you will ALWAYS find a way to complain.


Also, when he mentions the profit, he forgot to mention what MD Anderson's R&D budget was on a yearly basis. In the year ending Aug, 2011, they spent about 135mil on research. They also spent another 106mil on academic support for the student docs.

He does make sure he points out that the head of the hospital makes 1.9mil and has ties to pharmaceutical companies though. He really wants to make a deal about 1.9mil salary? A doc of the quality to run that Cancer Center would EASILY make 5x that in his own practice.

Overall a pretty informative article, but the bias in it was obvious which takes away a lot of credibility.