Healthcare Musings For 31 January 2020

Healthcare Musings For 31 January 2020

by | Jan 31, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Activism in Healthcare, Burnout, Costs, Dr. David Shulkin, Dr. Samuel Shem, Empathy, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Population Health, The Triple Aim, Zeev Neuwirth

  31 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers:   Between The Way Things Were And What They Might Become   As I write this edition of “Healthcare Musings,” the Senate trial of President Trump stumbles toward its conclusion. It is difficult for me to accept...
We Voted Before The Folks in Dixville Notch

We Voted Before The Folks in Dixville Notch

by | Jan 28, 2020 | Amy Klobuchar, Democratic Presidential Debates, Don Berwick, Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, The New Hampshire presidential primary, The Triple Aim

  No one knows how long it will last. I frequently hear speculation on New Hampshire Public Radio that this year may be the last year that New Hampshire will be able to pull off its “first in the nation presidential primary.” The most extreme example of...
Healthcare Musings For 24 January 2020

Healthcare Musings For 24 January 2020

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Impeachment Hearings, political polarization, The Implications For the Future of Healthcare In Trump's Impeachment Verdict, The President's Trial in The Senate, The Triple Aim

  24 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   What Will The Long Term Outcome Be?   I have probably watched more of the Impeachment Hearings and Senate trial of Donald John Trump than most of my readers. Most of you work, and when you drag your weary bones home...
Big Problems For The Next President To Tackle

Big Problems For The Next President To Tackle

by | Jan 21, 2020 | Angus Deaton and Anne Case, diseases of despair, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Nicholas Kristof, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim

  It’s now less than a year until Inauguration Day 2021. If you want the exact number of days, hours, minutes or even seconds until Wednesday January 20, 2021, click here. I have a bad habit of relating experiences in life to athletic challenges. Early on, I...
Healthcare Musings For 17 January 2020

Healthcare Musings For 17 January 2020

by | Jan 17, 2020 | Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Letter From A Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Therapeutic benefit of nature and exercise in nature

  17 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Power and Importance To Healthcare Of Dr. King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail”   Why are black people sicker, and why do they die earlier, than other racial groups? Many factors likely...