Can You Believe What’s Happening One Week Before The Election?

Can You Believe What’s Happening One Week Before The Election?

by | Oct 27, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Benefits of the ACA, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Retrograde Mercury, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The threat to women's reproductive rights

  In one week the retrograde Mercury will be over, Election Day will be behind us, and we will enter the next phase of uncertainty in the process of electing the president. The retrograde has been tough on me these last few weeks. There have been several...
Healthcare Musings For October 23, 2020

Healthcare Musings For October 23, 2020

by | Oct 23, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Black Lives Matter, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Pandemic Management, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, pre existing conditions, Social Determinants of Health, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA

October 23, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Finally, The Debates Are Over. What Did We Learn About The Future of Healthcare? What Did We Learn About The Candidates That We Did Not Already Know?   My expectations were low. What should your expectations be...
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...
“The World Continues To Vex Good People Everywhere.”

“The World Continues To Vex Good People Everywhere.”

by | Oct 13, 2020 | Confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Presidential Politics, Public Option, Retrograde Mercury

  I lifted the phrase, “…the world continues to vex good people everywhere,” from the notes associated with the song my son put on the Internet yesterday. Those eight words spoke to me, and described my feeling that we are being swept toward an uncertain,...
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,...
Speculating On The Implications of Our Latest October Surprise

Speculating On The Implications of Our Latest October Surprise

by | Oct 6, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump, Presidential Politics, The President's COVID-19 Infection, the uncertainty of ignoring pandemic prudence

  A prelude written after reflecting on this this post   I doubt that there is any information in this letter that will be news to you. My guess is that everyone who might read this letter is aware of the events and issues that it covers. These days we all...
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...
On the Road Again: Observations From The Rural Midwest

On the Road Again: Observations From The Rural Midwest

by | Sep 29, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Polarization in America, rural healthcare, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA, The threat to women's reproductive rights, Trump's to efforts to name a third Supreme Court justice.

  I am writing to you today from Nebraska. It’s the sixth day of our trip across America as we make our way to see our grandsons who live near Santa Cruz, California. They were out of their home for about two weeks as the raging fires came within a mile or two of...
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...