Neil Davis

Neil Davis
writer

A UAF emeritus professor of geophysics, Neil Davis has several fiction and nonfiction works published by the University of Alaska Press and McRoy & Blackburn Publishers. In 1976 he began in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner a column now known as the Alaska Science Forum and was its main writer for more than five years. His works include The Aurora Watcher’s Handbook, Caught in the Sluice, Alaska Science Nuggets, Energy/Alaska, Battling Against Success, The College Hill Chronicles, Permafrost, Zingwater!, and Rockets Over Alaska. Mired in the Health Care Morass is about the US health care situation and how to fix it. He writes Dose of Reality, a column about health care, oil taxation, and insurance, for The Ester Republic. You can read more about his books at his website, www.neildavisalaska.com.

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Republic articles:

v. 13 n.7: Dose of Reality: A Citizen's Look at Oil Taxation, Part 3: A Fake and a Finagle
v. 13 n. 6: editorial cartoon: "Good Boy, Sean!"
v. 13 n. 5: Dose of Reality: A Citizen's Look at Oil Taxation, part 2: A Tricky Ploy to Undercut ACES
v. 13 n. 4: Dose of Reality: A Citizen's Look at Oil Taxation, part 1: The Astroturfing of Alaska
v. 13 n. 3: Dose of Reality: Taiwan's Unique Health Care System
v. 13 n. 2: Dose of Reality: Exceptional America
v. 13 n. 1: Dose of Reality: The Individual Mandate Controversy
v. 12 n. 11: Dose of Reality: Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid Reform
v. 12 n. 10: Dose of Reality: The Future of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
v. 12 n. 9: Dose of Reality: No Health Rights for Us
v. 12 n. 8: Dose of Reality: Tango with the Teamsters: Alaska Regional Hospital's Interesting History
v. 12 n.7: Dose of Reality: Old Friends in Anchorage: Wells Fargo and Columbia/HCA
web release (reprinted in v. 12 n. 6): Dose of Reality: Something Fishy in Anchorage: A Provider Pereferred by Whom?
v. 12 n. 5: Dose of Reality: Discount Health Cards: Another Middleman Scam
v. 12 n. 4: Dose of Reality: The New Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
v. 12 n. 3: Dose of Reality: ACHIA, Alaska's High-Cost, High-Risk Health Insurance
v. 12 n. 2: Dose of Reality: We Haven't Hit Bottom Yet
v. 12 n. 1: Dose of Reality: Health Care Reform at the End of 2009
v. 11 n. 12: Dose of Reality: My Big Toe, part 2
v. 11 n. 11: Dose of Reality: My Rogue Big Toe
v. 11 n.10: Dose of Reality: Status of the Health Care Wars
v. 11 n. 9: Dose of Reality: Backdoor Health Care Reform
v. 11 n. 8: Dose of Reality: Proposed Changes to Medicare
v. 11 n. 7: Dose of Reality: Alaska's Congressional Stance on Health Care Reform
v. 11 n. 6: Dose of Reality: Comic Developments in the Health Care Reform War
v. 11 n. 5: Dose of Reality: Massachusetts' Failed Experiment with Health Care Reform
v. 11 n. 4: Dose of Reality: Marketing Machines
v. 11 n. 3: Dose of Reality: The Health Care Reform War
v. 11 n. 2: Dose of Reality: Health Insurance for the Uninsurable
v. 11 n. 1: Dose of Reality: Skyrocketing Premiums and an Insurance Industry Bailout
v. 10 n. 12: Dose of Reality: United Kingdom Moving Ahead on Health Care
v. 10 n. 11: Dose of Reality: Health Insurance Costs in Retirement
v. 10 n. 10: Dose of Reality: Do Not Resuscitate
v. 10 n. 9: Dose of Reality: McCain's Health Care Plan
v. 10 n. 8: Dose of Reality: HR 676: The Route to Affordable Health Care
v. 10 n. 7: Dose of Reality: Obama and McCain on Health Care
v. 10 n. 6: Dose of Reality: The Inceasing Role of the Physician Assistant
v. 10 n. 5: Dose of Reality: Beware Health Savings Accounts
v. 10 n. 4: Dose of Reality: Cost-Shifting in Health Care: the Uninsured are not the Problem
v. 10 n. 3: Dose of Reality: Alaska Health Care Lobbying
v. 10 n. 2: Dose of Reality: Doctors on Strike
v. 10 n. 1: Dose of Reality: Medical Billing Practices
v. 9 n. 12: Dose of Reality: Alaska Senate Bill 160: A Raid on Medicaid?
v. 9 n. 11: Dose of Reality: The Difference between Health Care and Health Insurance
v. 9 n. 10: Dose of Reality: Beware--A Medical Bill is Not a Normal Bill
v. 9 n. 9: Dose of Reality: The Certificate of Need Issue
v. 8 n. 8: Patricia Ann Davis (with Deirdre Helfferich)
v. 6 n. 11: Alaska Agonistes (book review)
v. 6 n. 2:
-- The Permanent Fund Decision: Fleeced Sheep and Alternative Solutions (with Deirdre Helfferich)
-- letter to the editor: Predator Control
v. 5 n. 1: Open Letter to Governor Murkowski
v. 1 n. 9: What Does "No" Mean?
v. 1 n. 7: The Ten Commandments
v. 1 n. 6: A History of the Y2K Problem: A Summary

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