Healthcare Musings For October 16, 2020

Healthcare Musings For October 16, 2020

by | Oct 16, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Presidential Politics, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA

  October 16, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Holding My Breath With My Fingers Crossed   There are less than three weeks until the election! It feels like this ordeal has been going on for four years, and I guess it has. The campaign for victory in...
Healthcare Musings for October 9, 2020

Healthcare Musings for October 9, 2020

by | Oct 9, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Brett Kavanaugh, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Sarah Kliff, The 2020 election, The president's personal experience with the coronavirus

  October 9, 2020  Dear Interested Readers,   Thoughts About Healthcare Now and in the Future While Awaiting the Election   Years ago, when I was a Boy Scout, I garnered all the merit badges associated with the waterfront at camp: swimming, canoeing,...
Healthcare Musings For October 2, 2020

Healthcare Musings For October 2, 2020

by | Oct 2, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Pandemic Management, The 2020 election, the president's lies, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim

  October 2, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About the Future of Healthcare and the 2020 Election After The First Debate   [I finished writing what follows last night at about 10:30 PM Mountain Time, 12:30 AM on the East Coast. While I was...
Healthcare Musings For September 25, 2020

Healthcare Musings For September 25, 2020

by | Sep 25, 2020 | "Caste." Racism, 2020 Presidential Debates, Angus Deaton and Anne Case, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Covid-19, Featured Post, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Pandemic Management, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, The 2020 election, The de emphasis of public health, Trump's to efforts to name a third Supreme Court justice.

  September 25, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Milestones, Grief, Continuing Misery, and Rage   I wish that Justice Ginsburg’s death had not coincided with the passing of the milestone of 200,000 deaths in this country from COVID-19 because it has been...
An Early “October Surprise”

An Early “October Surprise”

by | Sep 22, 2020 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Population Health, servant leadership, The 2020 election, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, Trump's to efforts to name a third Supreme Court justice.

  The talking heads on the Sunday morning news programs went back and forth between appropriately reviewing and honoring the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and speculating about the politics of naming her successor. One comment caught my ear...
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...