Eight weeks of Increased Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity Lie Ahead

Eight weeks of Increased Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity Lie Ahead

by | Sep 8, 2020 | Future of Heathcare, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Public Health, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy, The 2020 election, The Triple Aim, VUCA

  November 3rd lies exactly eight weeks into the future. In the interim we will be in a period of extreme VUCA. If you are a new or casual reader of these postings you may not understand what I am implying by saying it will be a period of extreme VUCA. Even if...
A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

by | Jul 21, 2020 | C.T. Vivian, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr, Non Violence, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health

  In the week immediately following their deaths on the same day, it would be hard to write a post in the age of Black Lives Matter and our increasing awareness of the role of white privilege and economic inequality in the persistence of healthcare disparities...
The Lessons Just Keep Coming

The Lessons Just Keep Coming

by | Jul 7, 2020 | Bret Kavanaugh, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Reopening the economy

  The president taught me something this week. I was not surprised when I heard that his campaign speech at Mount Rushmore was a dark and divisive presentation. I was very surprised, and a bit supercilious, when I heard that his rath came down on “far left”...
Healthcare Musings For July 3, 2020

Healthcare Musings For July 3, 2020

by | Jul 3, 2020 | a personal testimony, Covid-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Global Warming, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Ta-Nehisi Coates

  July 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   A Different Kind of Fourth   One of my most cherished possessions is about fifty feet of 8mm film shot by my father between 1948 and 1950. I found several canisters of developed and undeveloped movie film in a...
Healthcare Musings For June 12, 2020

Healthcare Musings For June 12, 2020

by | Jun 12, 2020 | Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, diseases of despair, Hope, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, telehealth

  June 12, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Hope For Transformational Change   Interesting and surprising things happen in cyberspace. I send these letters to you through a platform called WordPress. I get responses from you in two ways. Some of you just...
Are We On the Threshold of a Great Awakening?

Are We On the Threshold of a Great Awakening?

by | Jun 9, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic inequality, George Floyd, Inequality in Healthcare, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Reopening the economy, The Great Awakening, The World After COVID-19

  The header for this post should look familiar since last Friday’s post featured a very similar picture. The picture on last Friday had been taken on the previous Tuesday evening when about 200 people gathered on the New London Town Green to demonstrate their...