Goodbye, Nani

I moved around a lot as a kid.  I didn’t realize at the time I had been born into a nomadic family that found me shuttling between Delhi, Zambia, and Hyderabad in the first 10 years of my life.  You don’t feel terribly grounded when one moves around that much.  Home turned out to be…

Expensive hospitals: The Enemy within

Everyone agrees that health care is bankrupting the nation. The prevailing winds have carried the argument that a system that pays per unit of health care delivered and thus favors volume over value is responsible. The problem, you see, was the doctors. They were just incentivized to do too much. This incontrovertible fact was the…