Healthcare Musings For October 28, 2022

Healthcare Musings For October 28, 2022

by | Oct 28, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, A story from my life, disinformation, Equity, Featured Post, Garrison Keillor, Health in America, Healthcare equity, Hope, Misinformation, Politics and Healthcare, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Social Determinants of Health

October 28, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   The Tension Is Building   The 2022 midterm elections are just eleven days from now. On the one hand, I am sick and tired of the inflammatory political ads that are laced with lies or exaggerations coming from both...
Healthcare Musings For October 21, 2022

Healthcare Musings For October 21, 2022

by | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Biases, COVID uncertainty, Equity, Hearings of House Committee on January 6, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Inflation, MAGA, Maggie Haberman, Politics and Healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Social Determinants of Health

October 21, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Don’t Fall For The Con   I am hoping that sometime before the year 2045, which will be the year of my one-hundredth birthday, we will have enjoyed great success or at least substantial progress on the three issues...
Healthcare Musings For October 14, 2022

Healthcare Musings For October 14, 2022

by | Oct 14, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bayard Rustin, culture wars, Diane Gilworth, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Hope, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, political polarization, Poverty, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Transformative Politics

October 14, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Looking Back For Guidance Going Forward   I am probably like a lot of Democrats who can remember the enthusiasm with which we once embraced heroes like JFK, RFK, Gene McCarthy, and even Jimmy Carter and Bill...
Healthcare Musings For September 30, 2022

Healthcare Musings For September 30, 2022

by | Sep 30, 2022 | ACA, Biden's American Families Plan, Block Island, Build Back Better, Children in poverty, CHIP, Dr. Ruby Payne, Economic inequality, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Social Determinants of Health, The potential fallibility of statistics, Universal Basic Income

September 30, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   The Data Says There Is Less Poverty, But Poverty Is Still A Huge Barrier To Health   I was pleasantly surprised to hear recently that childhood poverty is down dramatically over the last twenty years. That was...