We Voted Before The Folks in Dixville Notch

We Voted Before The Folks in Dixville Notch

by | Jan 28, 2020 | Amy Klobuchar, Democratic Presidential Debates, Don Berwick, Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, The New Hampshire presidential primary, The Triple Aim

  No one knows how long it will last. I frequently hear speculation on New Hampshire Public Radio that this year may be the last year that New Hampshire will be able to pull off its “first in the nation presidential primary.” The most extreme example of...
Healthcare Musings For 10 January 2020

Healthcare Musings For 10 January 2020

by | Jan 10, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Conservative Values, Costs, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Jonathan Haidt, Liberal Values, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, political polarization, Universal Access

  10 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Do We Need To Better Understanding How Our Values Vary Before We Can Reform Healthcare?   I am always excited when I see an interesting article in the “Perspective Section” of the New England Journal of...
Healthcare Musings For 29 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 29 November 2019

by | Nov 29, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Adaptive Change, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Featured Post, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Healthcare Quality, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Single payer, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

  29 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Have You Heard Enough In The Democratic Debates About Healthcare?    It’s been a little more than a week since most of the Democratic contenders for the nomination for president gathered in Atlanta for their...
Don Berwick to the Rescue (of Elizabeth Warren)

Don Berwick to the Rescue (of Elizabeth Warren)

by | Nov 5, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Don Berwick, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Era 3: the moral era, healthcare finance, Medicare For All, The Triple Aim

  These days, if you are disconnected from the world for just twenty four hours, you miss a lot. At 5:45 AM last Friday, my wife and I got up at a friend’s home in Needham to go to the airport in time to board a flight at 8:25 AM in Boston that was headed...