Healthcare Musings for 31 August 2018
31 August 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Whataboutism, Pivoting, Economic Injustice, and Healthcare Lately I have been asking people in my circle of acquaintances what they think about “whataboutism.” I have gotten many blank stares which indicates to me that some...
Can We Make Progress Toward The Triple Aim in 2018?
In a recent “Healthcare Musing’s” Friday letter I tried to describe how I planned to contribute to the journey toward equity and the Triple Aim in 2018. Patty Gabow, an Interest Reader, friend, and the retired CEO of Denver Health wrote back: …I did read...
Looking Back to Think Forward
Looking back over 2017 I am moved to say, “You can’t make this stuff up!” That expression is a meme/cliche that entered our culture sometime since the advent of Facebook. It has been used more and more during the evolving chaos of the first year of the Trump...
After the Storm
What will be left when the storm is over? It’s the sort of question you might have asked yourself if you were living in Puerto Rico on September 20 when Maria hit. I ask it of myself on a regular basis when I think of Donald Trump’s attack on healthcare, the...
Obamacare Is Not a Disaster!
Congressional Republicans and the president can’t seem to coordinate their activities to “repeal and replace” the ACA, or get much of anything done. Their inability to deliver on their promise to give the public something better than the ACA is a surprise, since they...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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