Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

by | Nov 12, 2019 | Hawaii's Doctor Shortage, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare

  Whenever I travel, I like to look around to assess what it might be like to give care or receive care in the places that I visit. As I write this post, I am flying home from eleven days in Hawaii, where unlike most of the tourists, I was checking out where...
Healthcare Musings For 8 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 8 November 2019

by | Nov 8, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Healthcare as a Right, History of Healthcare Reform, Jill Lepore, Medicare For All, states' rights, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

  8 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Why Medicare for All Is The Best Choice, But An Unlikely Outcome No Matter Who Wins   I know that I am writing to sophisticated readers. Much of what follows may be boringly redundant or a statement of the...
Don Berwick to the Rescue (of Elizabeth Warren)

Don Berwick to the Rescue (of Elizabeth Warren)

by | Nov 5, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Don Berwick, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Era 3: the moral era, healthcare finance, Medicare For All, The Triple Aim

  These days, if you are disconnected from the world for just twenty four hours, you miss a lot. At 5:45 AM last Friday, my wife and I got up at a friend’s home in Needham to go to the airport in time to board a flight at 8:25 AM in Boston that was headed...
The Challenge Is Still To Deliver on “These Truths”

The Challenge Is Still To Deliver on “These Truths”

by | Oct 22, 2019 | David Brooks, Economic inequality, Frederick Douglass, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, Martin Luther King Jr, states' rights, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

  I was quite gratified that in his recent sixteen hour panorama of Country Music, Ken Burns spent a disproportionate amount of time in episode six on Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson has always been a favorite of mine. He was an exceptional athlete at Pomona...
Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

by | Oct 11, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Administrative Burden, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement

11 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Where Would You Start?   When I listen to politicians talk, at least the ones running for president, the health care problems they are interested in solving are mostly limited to how we achieve universal access and...