How Is The Public Connecting To The Healthcare Debate?

How Is The Public Connecting To The Healthcare Debate?

by | Sep 24, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, The Triple Aim

When I opened my Sunday paper this week, I was delighted to see two healthcare related articles on the front page. The first article written by Nora Doyle-Burr, a staff writer for the paper, was entitled “Health care a pressing issue in 2020 for many Upper Valley...
Employer Provided Insurance v. Single Payer Healthcare: Not All the Differences Are Obvious

Employer Provided Insurance v. Single Payer Healthcare: Not All the Differences Are Obvious

by | Aug 20, 2019 | Bernie Sanders, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Overton's Window, Presidential Politics

I admit to having groupie tendencies and team loyalties. The liability of being committed to a favorite entertainer, author, philosophy, religion, type of music, or team is that each is bound to have its problems, inconsistencies, or failures and then those...
Healthcare Musings For 2 August 2019

Healthcare Musings For 2 August 2019

by | Aug 2, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Costs, Elizabeth Warren, Future of Heathcare, Kamala Harris, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, The Triple Aim

2 August 2019   Dear Interested Readers,   What Have We Learned So Far From Listening To The Democratic Debates?   This last week we entertained some old friends from Massachusetts. We were neighbors. We attended the same church. We share many fond...
Are You Ready For Round Two?

Are You Ready For Round Two?

by | Jul 30, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, out of pocket healthcare costs, The Triple Aim, Universal Access

You can be sure that tonight and tomorrow night I will be interested in the outcome of the Red Sox/Tampa Bay games, but I won’t be watching. My eyes and ears will be tuned to round two of the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates in Detroit. Since the last debate,...
Creative Destruction, Adaptive Change, and the Continuing Movement Toward Universal Coverage

Creative Destruction, Adaptive Change, and the Continuing Movement Toward Universal Coverage

by | Jul 23, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Adaptive Change, Creative Destruction, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Public Option, The Triple Aim

The picture in the header of this post is my attempt to create an image that represents Creative Destruction, or if you prefer a more dramatic term, Schumpeter’s gale. I will get back to those terms, but first let me fully explain the meaning of the image by...
Healthcare Musings For 28 June 2019

Healthcare Musings For 28 June 2019

by | Jun 28, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Competition, Costs, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, healthcare finance, MACRA, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Public Option, The Triple Aim

28 June 2019   Dear Interested Readers,   The Democrats, Healthcare, and More: It’s Complicated   For the past two nights we have had our first look at the twenty highest polling contenders for the nomination of the Democratic Party for president....