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...
Applying Lean Thinking to the Future of the ACA
Tom Price is now in place at his new office at HHS. One of Dr. Price’s first actions was to release a YouTube video that promises us a lot but does not say anything specific about what he plans to do. Seema Verma has been working her way toward Senate confirmation as...
It’s Still The Truth, Ten Years Later
In the January 29th New England Journal of Medicine Foller, et. al. published an interesting article, “Population Health–A Bipartisan Agenda for the Incoming Administration from State Leaders.” The first paragraph said a lot. The common goal of health...
Information for Responsible Resistance
A few weeks ago those of us who had experienced a few moments of unfounded hope based on positive comments that President Trump had made about the ACA had our hopes dashed when he announced that Representative Dr. Tom Price of the 6th Congressional District of Georgia...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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