Can Better Conversations Promote Better Health?
Living in a “purple state” I often meet interesting people with whom I share some possible connection that both of us choose not to explore because a little superficial exchange quickly reveals that we see the world through the lenses of different political...
Obamacare Is Not a Disaster!
Congressional Republicans and the president can’t seem to coordinate their activities to “repeal and replace” the ACA, or get much of anything done. Their inability to deliver on their promise to give the public something better than the ACA is a surprise, since they...
Getting Beyond Hyperpartisanship on the Road to the Triple Aim
Last week when I copied and pasted the conclusions in the JAMA article by President Obama I discovered that Google Drive did not know the word “hyperpartisanship.” . Did Google’s ignorance of hyperparisanship suggest that we are experiencing something new?...
What’s Next in the Healthcare Debate?
I was delightfully dazed and confused the morning after Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain launched us into the next phase of the healthcare debate by giving the ACA a last minute reprieve. In a mix of ecstasy and disbelief I watched the video of John...
Better Healthcare Requires A Bipartisan Expression of Reciprocal Altruism
A major event that changed the way I see the world occurred in 1995 when I read Robert Wright’s The Moral Animal: Why We Are The Way We Are: the New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. The book was so good that I immediately gobbled up Nonzero: The Logic of Human...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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