Healthcare Musings For April 9, 2021

Healthcare Musings For April 9, 2021

  April 9, 22021 Dear Interested Readers,   Preparing For Transformation   I have been feeling disoriented since the Biden/ Harris inauguration. For four years I had felt vulnerable to the mismanagement and outright inhumanity of a narcissistic wannabe...
Healthcare Musings For March 26, 2021

Healthcare Musings For March 26, 2021

  March 26, 2021 Dear Interested Reader,   Have We Forgotten That The Cost of Care Is A Problem?   I mention the Triple Aim in many of my posts. In my opinion, the best graphic that presents the concept was created by the Institute For Healthcare...
Striving For A Progressive Worldview Within Politics and Healthcare

Striving For A Progressive Worldview Within Politics and Healthcare

  One of the most intriguing challenges of the Trump era for me has been to explain his ability to attract the vigorous and loyal support of the religious right and working-class White voters in red states. What has been a puzzling observation of many liberal and...
Turning Things Toward The Triple AIM At HHS

Turning Things Toward The Triple AIM At HHS

  Time flies. It has been almost two months since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were inaugurated. With each passing day, it becomes harder to imagine that we ever elected Donald Trump as prescient. My health has improved. I get more sleep.   During the “Trump...
We Need to Treat the Transformation of Primary Care Organization and Finance As An Urgent Need

We Need to Treat the Transformation of Primary Care Organization and Finance As An Urgent Need

  The latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine was waiting for me in my mailbox yesterday when I dropped by the post office. I was delighted to see that it was the March 4th edition and I was happy to get it on time. The mail comes very irregularly...