The problems with health care are monumental, not only here in the United States, but throughout the world. No area is immune. The root causes for the problems are many and very complex. They run the gamut from poverty, to…

The land mines facing any medical director:

• Benefits restriction. In one of my plans we had regular meetings to determine what our highest costs were and how we could redesign benefits to control them).
• Exclusions, even those fabricated to justify a trend…