How Do We Strengthen The Nation’s Primary Health Care System?

How Do We Strengthen The Nation’s Primary Health Care System?

If you have avoided these notes for the past few weeks, you may not know that I have been systematically reviewing the recommendations of the Commonwealth Fund’s Task Force On Payment and Delivery System Reform. There are six sections to the report. So far we have...
Healthcare Musings For February 12, 2021

Healthcare Musings For February 12, 2021

  February 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Health System Accountability for Heath Care, Quality, Equity, and Cost   It’s been a remarkable week in Washington. One of the benefits of retirement is that every day is Saturday. I have spent most of...
Goodbye 2019, Hello to the 20s

Goodbye 2019, Hello to the 20s

  I am so glad that it is going to be the 20s tomorrow. Bye-bye to a so-so decade. This New Year should be very interesting. There should be events that occur this year that will have a long term significance in our collective experience. I always embrace the New...
Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

11 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Where Would You Start?   When I listen to politicians talk, at least the ones running for president, the health care problems they are interested in solving are mostly limited to how we achieve universal access and...
Healthcare Musings For 9 August 2019

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...