Jeoffry B. Gordon is a family physician.

Problems that arise when preventive medicine services waive co-pays

Health Policy
November 5, 2010

by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH

Preventive medicine services will soon require no co-pays.

This is just another example of how complex and fouled up any health reform that depends on commercial insurance can be. In addition it demonstrates how pious morality infused into the democratic politics of health reform impairs the greater good.

So after all current insurance policies renew, according to Affordable Care Act, preventive services must …

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Problems that arise when preventive medicine services waive co-pays

Insurance companies affect patients with paperwork for tests

Health Policy
September 6, 2010

by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH

I have always considered it to be my professional responsibility and ethical imperative to fight for my patients with the insurance companies to get approval for every test and medication that I think is medically necessary.

My batting average is close to 100% Lately, the insurance companies have been trying to draw the noose tighter and make the task of getting …

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Insurance companies affect patients with paperwork for tests

Viagra for muscular dystrophy and publicity for accidental insight

Conditions and Diseases
July 22, 2010

by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH

As a family doc in practice for over 30 years I have been always tried to conceptualize disease states beyond the standard text book parameters.

Thus I was elated by the prospect of discovering a new beneficial treatment for muscular dystrophy when 5 years ago I gave some Viagra to a 57-year old patient of mine with limb girdle muscular dystrophy for the usual purpose. In …

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Viagra for muscular dystrophy and publicity for accidental insight

How the mammogram and Pap smear debates ignore the uninsured

Conditions and Diseases
November 24, 2009

by Jeoffry B.Gordon, MD, MPH

The recent recommendation of the US Preventive Services Task Force against routine screening mammograms for healthy, low risk women under the age of fifty has demonstrated our broad consensus about the value of breast cancer screening. The discussions about new guidance from the American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology on when to start and how often to do PAP smears illuminate the impact, effectiveness and support …

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How the mammogram and Pap smear debates ignore the uninsured

Is health care a public good?

Health Policy
August 24, 2009

by Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH

The public policy and current political action around changing the system overlooks two important technical fallacies:

(1) That health care is most efficiently distributed by a free market mechanism; and,
(2) That medical services are an ordinary commodity.

The commercial market model is a failing economic and public policy ideology used to rationalize and justify corporate control of the health care system to profit from the enterprise. …

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Is health care a public good?