Healthcare Musings For 27 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 27 December 2019

by | Dec 27, 2019 | ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Big Five Tech Companies Invade Healthcare, Costs, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Medicare For All, Strategy Formation, The 2020 elections, The Public Option, Universal Access

  27 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Looking Back At 2019 As We Think About 2020   I am a maker of New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of year again. Looking back on 2019 I did a pretty good job. I had some partial successes, and some of my...
Hope, Peace, Joy, Love: What the Holidays Are All About

Hope, Peace, Joy, Love: What the Holidays Are All About

by | Dec 24, 2019 | Advent and Christmas, Conservative Values, Empathy, Featured Post, Hanukkah, Health in America, Liberal Values, Making America Great Again, Medicare For All, Polarization in America, Progressive Values, The Triple Aim

  This year Christmas falls in the middle of Hanukkah. I think the overlap creates an opportunity to celebrate the deeper meaning that is shared between these overlapping religious traditions. Both holidays are celebrated near the winter solstice, a time...
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...
Healthcare Musings For 6 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 6 December 2019

by | Dec 6, 2019 | a personal testimony, Activism in Healthcare, Community Health Workers., Community Needs Assessments, Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, Featured Post, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partnership, Partners For Community Wellness, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life

  6 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Grass Root Efforts To Address The Social Determinants of Health: Introduction To Partners For Community Wellness   David Brooks’ recent best seller, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life was an...