Health Care

After attending a lecture in 1994, with health care reform at the forefront of national policy debate, I became interested in a new, ad hoc non-profit organization devoted to individual rights in medicine. Encouraged by a newspaper editor, who wrote a letter of recommendation, I was named editorial director of Newport Beach, California-based Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM).

Within a year, I created the organization’s Web site and, as AFCM’s director and spokesman for five years, I wrote speeches, essays and patient advocacy letters. I also developed AFCM’s educational programs and Web site, speaking at universities, clubs and hospitals. In 1999, I stepped down and became editor of AFCM’s newsletter.

Prescription Drug Plans Buyer Beware

This 2000 interview was published in the Detroit News, Buffalo News, and Los Angeles Daily News.

Today’s seniors are at the center of a dramatic health care policy debate that has surprised political experts by becoming the focus of the 2000 presidential campaign. Read more >>

California's Socialized Medicine Rising

This 2005 essay was published by the non-profit charitable organization Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM). Mr. Holleran has served as editorial adviser since 1994.

This month, in a 73-page position paper, California’s insurance commissioner, John Garamendi, proposed a government takeover of medicine. Read more >>

First HSA President William West, M.D.

This 2005 interview was conducted for the non-profit charitable organization Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM). Mr. Holleran has served as editorial adviser since 1994.

Pennsylvania-based First HSA is a profitable business run by what Ayn Rand called “the forgotten man of socialized medicine”: the doctor. Read more >>

Dr. Dean Edell

Variations of this 2001 interview were published in the Hartford Courant, Buffalo News and Los Angeles Daily News.

Before there were Drs. Laura, Ruth, and Drew, there was Dr. Dean—Dr. Dean Edell. At a time when most news networks have a regular stable of on-air doctors—one for every calamity—Edell was a pioneer as one of America’s first media doctors. Read more >>

Boomerang The Clinton Health Care Plan That Failed

This 1996 book review was published in the Los Angeles Daily News.

Autopsies are never fun and are usually messy. Boomerang, a post-mortem of the Clinton administration's failed health-care plan written by Harvard professor Theda Skocpol, falls into this category. Read more >>

Autonomy Makes the Best Medicine

This 2000 article was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer and in Los Angeles Times' local newspapers.

75-year-old cancer surgeon John Stehlin’s story captures the uniqueness of the doctor/patient relationship, fully explored in The Best Medicine: Doctors, Patients and the Covenant of Caring, ( St. Martin’s Press, 221 pages, $23.95). Read more >>

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