The Gifts That The President Gives Us and The Challenge That He Represents to the Triple Aim

The Gifts That The President Gives Us and The Challenge That He Represents to the Triple Aim

by | Feb 27, 2018 | Innovation, Politics, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy, Tax Reform and Healthcare, The Triple Aim

The foundational fairy tale that Michael Wolff tells us in his bestseller, Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, is that the president and none of his campaign staff, except Steve Bannon, ever thought he would win and did not prepare for the possibility of...

Beyond Silver Bullets: Embracing Era 3 of Healthcare

by | Feb 13, 2018 | Era 3: the moral era, Healthcare Transformation, Improving the health of the poor, Lean, patient centered care, Population Health Management, Process Improvement, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim

Zeev Neuwirth, Senior Medical Director of Population Health at Carolinas Healthcare System Medical Group, and an old friend and former colleague, launched a weekly podcast last August entitled, Creating a New Healthcare. I love the recurrent introduction that  Zeev...
Racism, Poverty, Injustice, Inequality, and Healthcare Disparities: Different Sides of the Same Problem

Racism, Poverty, Injustice, Inequality, and Healthcare Disparities: Different Sides of the Same Problem

by | Jan 23, 2018 | Economic inequality, Featured Post, Health in America, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty, Social Determinants of Health

A small group of people in my community has been meeting recently to examine how we may be more effective in our charitable activities for our community. Our definition of community is not confined to the limits of New London, but is defined more as a region that...
The Tax Reform Bill Is Like Coal In the Stocking of the Poor

The Tax Reform Bill Is Like Coal In the Stocking of the Poor

by | Dec 26, 2017 | Health in America, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty, Social Determinants of Health, Tax Reform and Healthcare, The Triple Aim

On Christmas morning as I was enjoying opening presents with my family, it occurred to me that President Trump’s suggestion that the tax bill was a big Christmas present for Americans must be very painful for the poor to hear. This bill puts much of their “safety net”...