What Floats Your Boat and Moves It?
What floats your boat and moves it? Perhaps that is a crude way of asking about both where your values arise and what motivates you. For some reason whenever issues of either values or motivation become the subject, I think of my experience as a Boy Scout. I sometimes...
Did Secretary Azar Turn A Page in the History of Healthcare Reform?
In 1993 when the Republicans joined force with many in the healthcare industry to defeat the plans for universal coverage put forth by the Clintons, I said somewhat facetiously to some colleagues and friends that we would not get universal coverage and healthcare...
Looking Back to Think Forward
Looking back over 2017 I am moved to say, “You can’t make this stuff up!”  That expression is a meme/cliche that entered our culture sometime since the advent of Facebook.  It has been used more and more during the evolving chaos of the first year of the Trump...
Perhaps an Explosion Would Be the Most Efficient Route to the Triple Aim
After the failure of Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act to get passed over the internal squabbling of House Republicans despite their forty four vote majority, David Brooks wrote an interesting tongue in cheek column entitled “The Coming Incompetence Crisis.” He...
Is It Time For ACA 2.0?
Back in April when we were not absolutely sure who the nominees for president would be. Michael Cohen wrote “Obamacare: an unheralded success” in the Boston Globe. He  commented then that healthcare was not getting much discussion by Republicans beyond a flat out...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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