Transitioning the Conversation from Medicare For All to Medicare for All Who Want It
Since last week’s First Democratic Presidential Primary debates I keep thinking about Medicare for All versus Medicare for All Who Want It. I am sure there are many things about this complex conversation that I do not completely understand, and in that regard I think...
Healthcare Musings For 28 June 2019
28 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, The Democrats, Healthcare, and More: It’s Complicated For the past two nights we have had our first look at the twenty highest polling contenders for the nomination of the Democratic Party for president....
Healthcare Musings For 8 March 2019
8 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What Medicare-For-All Can’t Fix Let me remind you of Dr. Robert Ebert’s 1965 formula for the future of healthcare in America. He lived for thirty years after this observation and did much to test his own...
It’s Time For A Change In How We Look At Hospitals
The hospital in my little town was one hundred years old this last year. It was launched by three local physicians, Dr. Nathan Griffin, Dr. Charles Lamson and Dr. Anna Littlefield, in collaboration with women in the community. A local woman of some prominence, Jane...
Healthcare Musings For 16 November 2018
16 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Things To Ponder I have recently finished reading Jill Lapore’s These Truths: a History of the United States. Lepore finishes the book with a forward looking question: Barack Obama had urged...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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