Healthcare Musings For December 24, 2021

Healthcare Musings For December 24, 2021

  December 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Warning: The first section of this letter is at times sarcastic. Its content ranges from overt hostility to whimsical fantasy that attempts to answer the question, “What’s the problem with Joe Manchin?” It fails...
Healthcare Musings For August 6, 2021

Healthcare Musings For August 6, 2021

  August 6, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Why I Have Been Writing About Race, Inequality, and Climate Change   As I look back over the last thirteen years that I have been writing these Friday letters to you I realize that there has been quite a...
Healthcare Musings For July 23, 2021

Healthcare Musings For July 23, 2021

  July 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Can We Use The Desire To Be Anti-Racist To Improve Healthcare?   Even if you are only a casual reader of these notes you know that I am a big fan of many of the columnists who write opinion pieces in The New...
Tapping Into the Wisdom and Spirit of Elizabeth Warren

Tapping Into the Wisdom and Spirit of Elizabeth Warren

  Before I retired, especially after Atrius became involved with CMMI’s Pioneer ACO project, I made frequent trips to Washington. The Washington shuttle from Boston was always packed with people who looked like they were involved with very important business. It...
Joe Has Proposed A Super Highway To The Triple Aim

Joe Has Proposed A Super Highway To The Triple Aim

  I have a confession. For some time I have had the suspicion that the idea of the Triple Aim does not effectively call many of us or our institutions to immediate action. I hear an occasional doctor or administrator talk about the “Quadruple Aim” and that makes...