Why We Fight (for Health Care Reform)
As we now enter the battle to keep the PPACA intact, I wrote this piece for our Doctors for America BlogIt is a worthwhile blog, written exclusively by physicians, so please go check it out on a...
View ArticleDo you reject Jesus? (The new oath of office)
At Easter, in the Catholic Church, we do a renewal of baptismal vows.In this new age of Ayn Rand that we are suffering through, it occurs to me that we could rewrite this as an oath of office for Paul...
View ArticleThe Poor You Will Always Have With You
A piece I wrote for the Doctors for America blog (Progress Notes - add it to your reader!) on how we are failing our own proclaimed moral standards in so many ways...One of the most vexing arguments...
View ArticleDignity
One of the things lost in the health care reform debate, and more urgently, conservative plans to turn Medicaid into block grants and to turn Medicare into a voucher program, is why social justice is...
View ArticleParsimony & Medicine
[This is cross-posted on Doctors for America's Progress Notes and my blog.]I wasn't planning on writing about rationing of health care again, since we covered it in my last post prompted by Don...
View ArticleThe Never Ending Health Care Reform BS Machine
Just at the beginning of the month, I posted at the Doctors for America Blog about a couple of ridiculous email campaigns that will not die, in spite of how ridiculous they both were and are.A friend...
View ArticleThree Books: A Summary of a Doctors for America Session held at National...
I’ve been thinking a lot about how we overcome the corporate and other interests that will oppose health care reform (universal healthcare). History tells us they will largely succeed. Here is the...
View ArticleNotes and Thoughts: Thinking fast and slow about universal healthcare.
I have been thinking about healthcare reform in general and universal healthcare in particular, for decades now. I am well aware of the admonition of Uwe Reinhardt that, in healthcare reform,...
View ArticleWe’re not ready for Single Payer Healthcare (because we disagree on basic...
“A common incantation during debates on health reform… is ‘that we all want the same thing; we merely disagree on how best to get there.’ That is rubbish.”– Uwe ReinhardtIn a 2011 Republican...
View ArticleCognitive Science & Universal Healthcare
I recently participated in a session at Healthcare Now! 2021 Medicare For All Conference. We (USA Healthcare) put on the session called "The Way Forward for Universal Healthcare: Values Centric or...
View ArticleUsing Catalyst as framework for Moral Healthcare Chapter 1: Reactance
[These blog entries are my notes and takeaways from Jonah Berger’s amazing book, The Catalyst as I apply them to Universal Healthcare. This first entry is very long because it contains so much that...
View ArticleUsing The Catalyst as framework for Moral Healthcare. Chapter 2: Endowment
[These blog entries are my notes and takeaways from Jonah Berger’s amazing book, The Catalyst as I apply them to Universal Healthcare.]Endowment (Wikipedia): people are more likely to retain an object...
View ArticleMaybe we are ready for Universal Healthcare?
Last year I wrote a piece titled “We’re not ready for Single Payer Healthcare (because we disagree on basic morality).” The premise was that we could not advance towards universal healthcare because of...
View ArticleConservatives surprising views on Simplicity and Affordability in American...
In my last post, Maybe we are ready for Universal Healthcare? I revealed results from a survey conducted by our USA Healthcare group. USA stands for Universal, Simple, and Affordable, which is a...
View ArticleShow Your Work and become a “Scenius!”
So I watched this video, How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire, because I like the YouTuber and have been looking for tips on how to grow my YouTube Presence and blog more and better. It is largely...
View ArticleWhy are conservative attacks on universal healthcare always so lame?
I got an email from Wendell Potter’s Center for Health and Democracy regarding the unaffordability of healthcare and reliance of way too many on Go Fund Me to pay for their care.He tells a compelling...
View ArticleThree Books: The Beginning of a Journey on using Cognitive Science to reach...
In the interest of trying to contribute something to the community as often as possible, I am reposting this piece from my blog. It marks the beginning of a journey I find myself on still. I will keep...
View ArticleRethinking Conservatives Views on “the Undeserving”
In my post Friday, the discussion turned to conservatives’ views on universal healthcare, specifically about the deserving/undeserving paradigm. I have written about this before a great length,...
View ArticlePolitical Sustainability of the US Healthcare System
Jonathan Cohn wrote a book about the 10-year struggle to get and keep the Affordable Care Act. In an interview on Fresh Air, he mentioned all the factions that were aligned to prevent anything serious...
View ArticleShowing my work - why cognitive psychology and why a Kefauver-type commission?
In the interest of “showing my work,” and showing the process that got me to here,it occurred to me after writing my post about Political Sustainability of the US Healthcare System that I should share...
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