Fresh Wisdom For These Times From Don Berwick

Fresh Wisdom For These Times From Don Berwick

by | Dec 15, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hands Across the Hills, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

  I don’t really remember when I first met Don Berwick. He joined Harvard Community Health Plan in the late seventies as a pediatrician. I began my career there a few years earlier in 1975 right out of my training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before it...
One Day at A Time Through The Uncertainty Ahead

One Day at A Time Through The Uncertainty Ahead

by | Dec 8, 2020 | Advent and Christmas, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Future of Heathcare, Joe Biden, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim

  Let me offer you an introductory warning and a rationalization. I have to admit that I can’t overcome my compulsion to write about what is on my mind. That lack of self control then forces me to hope that I can twist my obsession of the moment into something...
Joe Has A Hard Road Ahead. What Can We Do?

Joe Has A Hard Road Ahead. What Can We Do?

by | Dec 1, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Future of Heathcare, gridlock, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Polarization in America, The 2020 election, The election of Joe Biden, the filibuster, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA

  Joe Biden has won the presidency no matter what Donald Trump says or does, but the road ahead will be difficult for him and for all who were hoping that all the damage done to dreams of healthcare as a right for all who live in America, affordable universal...
Looking Ahead With Thanks and Hope Through the Aftermath of the Election

Looking Ahead With Thanks and Hope Through the Aftermath of the Election

by | Nov 24, 2020 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Build Back Better, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Polarization in America, The 2020 election, The Public Option

  This time three weeks ago many Americans were wearing masks while standing in lines with six feet of distance on either side from others in line while waiting patiently to cast their vote. Some stood for hours in lines designed to discourage them from...
Healthcare Musings For November 20, 2020

Healthcare Musings For November 20, 2020

by | Nov 20, 2020 | Build Back Better, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Hope, Obama's The Promised Land, Polarization in America, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim

  November 20, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   A Good Read In Preparation For A Better Future   If you are a regular reader of these notes, you know that I love to read. One of my favorite quotes is from Will Rogers, the famous humorist, who loved to...
An Early “October Surprise”

An Early “October Surprise”

by | Sep 22, 2020 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Population Health, servant leadership, The 2020 election, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, Trump's to efforts to name a third Supreme Court justice.

  The talking heads on the Sunday morning news programs went back and forth between appropriately reviewing and honoring the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and speculating about the politics of naming her successor. One comment caught my ear...