Healthcare Musings For 9 August 2019
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...
Healthcare Musings For 2 August 2019
2 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What Have We Learned So Far From Listening To The Democratic Debates? This last week we entertained some old friends from Massachusetts. We were neighbors. We attended the same church. We share many fond...
Are You Ready For Round Two?
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
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...
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...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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