Employer Provided Insurance v. Single Payer Healthcare: Not All the Differences Are Obvious

Employer Provided Insurance v. Single Payer Healthcare: Not All the Differences Are Obvious

by | Aug 20, 2019 | Bernie Sanders, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Overton's Window, Presidential Politics

I admit to having groupie tendencies and team loyalties. The liability of being committed to a favorite entertainer, author, philosophy, religion, type of music, or team is that each is bound to have its problems, inconsistencies, or failures and then those...
Healthcare Musings For 16 August 2019

Healthcare Musings For 16 August 2019

by | Aug 16, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Martin Luther King Jr, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The 1619 Project, The Triple Aim

16 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Race and Healthcare   The New York Times Magazine has launched a program this month that it is calling “The 1619 Project.” This year is the 400th anniversary of slavery in America. The piece that you will find if you follow...
Healthcare Musings For 9 August 2019

Healthcare Musings For 9 August 2019

by | Aug 9, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Congressional Budget Office, Consolidation in healthcare, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, out of pocket healthcare costs, pre existing conditions, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement

9 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Focusing the Conversation in Order to Make Progress   Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, former congressman, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, and later two term mayor of Chicago. Dr. Emanuel was a...
Are You Ready For Round Two?

Are You Ready For Round Two?

by | Jul 30, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, out of pocket healthcare costs, The Triple Aim, Universal Access

You can be sure that tonight and tomorrow night I will be interested in the outcome of the Red Sox/Tampa Bay games, but I won’t be watching. My eyes and ears will be tuned to round two of the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates in Detroit. Since the last debate,...
Creative Destruction, Adaptive Change, and the Continuing Movement Toward Universal Coverage

Creative Destruction, Adaptive Change, and the Continuing Movement Toward Universal Coverage

by | Jul 23, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Adaptive Change, Creative Destruction, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Public Option, The Triple Aim

The picture in the header of this post is my attempt to create an image that represents Creative Destruction, or if you prefer a more dramatic term, Schumpeter’s gale. I will get back to those terms, but first let me fully explain the meaning of the image by...
What Could You Do About the Social Determinants of Health?

What Could You Do About the Social Determinants of Health?

by | Jul 9, 2019 | Activism in Healthcare, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Improving the health of the poor, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim

Every Monday morning I am part of a small group that meets to discuss a few chapters of a book that we have  been reading together. The books that we read are theological in nature, but related to an ongoing exploration of social justice. As I mentioned a few...