Let’s Keep Trying to Save the Gains of the ACA
It may seem strange to you, but each time I hear that the president and the Republican leadership are making an effort to resuscitate their attempt at repealing and replacing the ACA, I immediately think of the surprising last scene from “Fatal Attraction,” the...
Perhaps an Explosion Would Be the Most Efficient Route to the Triple Aim
After the failure of Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act to get passed over the internal squabbling of House Republicans despite their forty four vote majority, David Brooks wrote an interesting tongue in cheek column entitled “The Coming Incompetence Crisis.” He...
Where We Should Focus
In a recent essay Michael Dowling, the CEO of Northwell, the massive health system with 21 hospitals in metropolitan New York and Long Island, points out that the most frustrating aspect of the current healthcare debate is that “it is ideological and not practical.”...
Looking Underneath the President’s Comments About “Repeal and Replace”
As the “talking heads” who analyzed the President’s speech and Governor Beshear’s Democratic party response were fading into the 11 o’clock news, Verizon offered an advertisement that contained as much or more wisdom than anything that I had heard over the...
“Repeal and Replace”: Finally, Something From the Republican Leadership
This last week Congress has been recessed for the Presidents’ Day holiday week. Paul Ryan accurately anticipated that many of Republican members of Congress would be having town meetings with their constituents and would face angry voters who wanted to talk down the...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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