“The World Continues To Vex Good People Everywhere.”

“The World Continues To Vex Good People Everywhere.”

by | Oct 13, 2020 | Confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Presidential Politics, Public Option, Retrograde Mercury

  I lifted the phrase, “…the world continues to vex good people everywhere,” from the notes associated with the song my son put on the Internet yesterday. Those eight words spoke to me, and described my feeling that we are being swept toward an uncertain,...
Speculating On The Implications of Our Latest October Surprise

Speculating On The Implications of Our Latest October Surprise

by | Oct 6, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump, Presidential Politics, The President's COVID-19 Infection, the uncertainty of ignoring pandemic prudence

  A prelude written after reflecting on this this post   I doubt that there is any information in this letter that will be news to you. My guess is that everyone who might read this letter is aware of the events and issues that it covers. These days we all...
Healthcare Musings For October 2, 2020

Healthcare Musings For October 2, 2020

by | Oct 2, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Pandemic Management, The 2020 election, the president's lies, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim

  October 2, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About the Future of Healthcare and the 2020 Election After The First Debate   [I finished writing what follows last night at about 10:30 PM Mountain Time, 12:30 AM on the East Coast. While I was...
On the Road Again: Observations From The Rural Midwest

On the Road Again: Observations From The Rural Midwest

by | Sep 29, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Polarization in America, rural healthcare, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA, The threat to women's reproductive rights, Trump's to efforts to name a third Supreme Court justice.

  I am writing to you today from Nebraska. It’s the sixth day of our trip across America as we make our way to see our grandsons who live near Santa Cruz, California. They were out of their home for about two weeks as the raging fires came within a mile or two of...
Healthcare Musings For September 4, 2020

Healthcare Musings For September 4, 2020

by | Sep 4, 2020 | Atul Gawande, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Paul Romer, Population Health Management, Public Health, Reopening the economy, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, The de emphasis of public health, The importance of testing in pandemic management

September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence   This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...
Healthcare Musings For August 28, 2020

Healthcare Musings For August 28, 2020

by | Aug 28, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Featured Post, Global Warming, Joe Biden, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, President Trump, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racism in America, Republican National Convention, The 2020 election

  August 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, From Here to the Election, Expect the Unusual and Bizarre   It has been a violent and disturbing week as we have witnessed yet more dramatic displays of the effect of our continuing abuse of the environment and our...