Make America Neighborly Again

Make America Neighborly Again

by | Feb 4, 2020 | Daniel Kahneman, Dialog Across the Divide, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Inequality, Making America Great Again, Poverty and healthcare, the Golden Rule, The Triple Aim, Who Is My Neighbor?

  For more than four years I have had a visceral reaction to red hats with bold letters spelling out Make America Great Again. Occasionally, the hat’s message may be reduced to the acronym MAGA, or some combination of MAGA and Trump. Theoretically, there is...
Big Problems For The Next President To Tackle

Big Problems For The Next President To Tackle

by | Jan 21, 2020 | Angus Deaton and Anne Case, diseases of despair, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Nicholas Kristof, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim

  It’s now less than a year until Inauguration Day 2021. If you want the exact number of days, hours, minutes or even seconds until Wednesday January 20, 2021, click here. I have a bad habit of relating experiences in life to athletic challenges. Early on, I...
Healthcare Musings For 20 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 20 December 2019

by | Dec 20, 2019 | ACA, Activism in Healthcare, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Impeachment of Donald Trump, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim

  20 December 2019  Dear Interested Readers,   Thoughts At The Winter Solstice   The Winter Solstice this year occurs tomorrow, December 21, at 11:20 PM while I am waiting for the opening skit of Saturday NIght Live. It will be the shortest day of the...
Healthcare Musings For 13 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 13 December 2019

by | Dec 13, 2019 | Democratic control of the House, Featured Post, Health in America, Impeachment Hearings, Polarization in America, Population Health, Poverty and healthcare, selling plasma as income for the poor, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 elections

  13 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   How Good Are Things? It Depends On Who You Are And Where You Live.   It’s hard to put the drama in Washington out of mind. If you have had the time, you may, like me, have spent many hours watching the House...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics About Poverty: A Personal Perspective From Recent Experience

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics About Poverty: A Personal Perspective From Recent Experience

by | Sep 17, 2019 | Continuous Improvement, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Mark Twain's wisdom, Opioid Epidemic, Poverty and healthcare, The potential fallibility of statistics, The Triple Aim

Samuel Langhorne Clemons, a.k.a. MarkTwain, is famous for his ability to express a profound truth in a few pithy words. I frequently am reminded of his wisdom when I try to write. He is famous for saying “I apologize for such a long letter – I didn’t have...
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...