Understanding How the Amazing Success of the 9.9 Percent is a Risk to Better Healthcare for Everyone

Understanding How the Amazing Success of the 9.9 Percent is a Risk to Better Healthcare for Everyone

by | Jun 5, 2018 | Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Health in America, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, metitocracy, Process Improvement, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim

I saw aristocracy up close at Harvard Medical School. I quickly realized that some of my classmates were from families that were either power brokers in New York or Washington, or were the elite of American medicine. I discerned that I had been slotted into the class...
We Must Be Inept Because We Do Spend Enough To Do a Better Job

We Must Be Inept Because We Do Spend Enough To Do a Better Job

by | May 22, 2018 | Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, History of Healthcare Reform, Innovation in Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim

When my own wellspring of inspiration and self proclaimed insight seems to be temporarily running dry, I compensate by passing on to readers what I am learning from others. There has been a lot to learn from others and to pass on recently. I was particularly intrigued...
The Gifts That The President Gives Us and The Challenge That He Represents to the Triple Aim

The Gifts That The President Gives Us and The Challenge That He Represents to the Triple Aim

by | Feb 27, 2018 | Innovation, Politics, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy, Tax Reform and Healthcare, The Triple Aim

The foundational fairy tale that Michael Wolff tells us in his bestseller, Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, is that the president and none of his campaign staff, except Steve Bannon, ever thought he would win and did not prepare for the possibility of...