What’s Next in the Healthcare Debate?

What’s Next in the Healthcare Debate?

by | Aug 8, 2017 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Transformation, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim

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

Better Healthcare Requires A Bipartisan Expression of Reciprocal Altruism

by | Jul 25, 2017 | ACA, Better Care and Reconciliation Act of 2017, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Medicaid Reform, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim

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...
Sharing “Deep Stories” to Use Empathy in the Quest for the Triple Aim

Sharing “Deep Stories” to Use Empathy in the Quest for the Triple Aim

by | Jun 27, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Politics, the healthcare debate, the power of stories, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim

A couple of weeks ago when I gave you Dr. Patty Gabow’s letter to Senator Alexander I reported that I was reading Arlie Russell Hochschild’s recent book, Strangers In Their Own Land:  Anger and Mourning on the American Right. In that book Russell seeks to be...