H&HN Weekly 3/3/09I recently spent some time in Gloucester, Mass., watching little boats—the precarious remnants of a once-mighty fishing fleet—toddle in and out of the narrow harbor neck. I thought about the so-called perfect storm, that combination of factors...
The reaction in certain quarters to the healthcare reform provisions of the stimulus bill now clearing Congress lays bare the nature of opposition to the forthcoming fight for real change in healthcare: It will be viciousness at the top of the lungs. It will be...
(From The Physician Executive, Vol. 35 #1, Jan/Feb 2009, pp 50-53) Imagine you are an explorer, scouting out new territory, with the help of a local guide – a mathematically-inclined local guide. You come to a river. You ask whether it can be forded: “How deep is it?”...
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly, January 28, 2009)Merely covering all Americans in some fashion to pay for the system we have now would fall far short of creating a system that works. In fact, that would take far more than federal legislation, but the...
