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Now a colossal waste of time, former Hospice physician, former Critical Care Physician; Pennsylvania Director, Doctors for America
Diaries published: 37 (30 days since last diary on Fri Apr 02, 2021 at 10:10 AM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: We’re not ready for Single Payer Healthcare (because we disagree on basic morality)*, 124 comments, 71 recommends
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[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 they own than acquire that same object when they...
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[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 crosses over with other cognitive science material, so...
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on Wed Mar 31, 2021 at 04:10 PM PDT
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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 Policy Centric?" I made the Values based case, largely...
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on Fri Jan 29, 2021 at 11:18 AM PST
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“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 Reinhardt In a 2011 Republican Presidential debate, candidate Ron Paul was asked a pointed...
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on Wed Oct 07, 2020 at 08:27 AM PDT
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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, ...
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on Fri Jan 31, 2020 at 08:00 AM PST
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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 first of three posts exploring Prospect Theory, the...
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- Section 1. The power of the President to pardon shall cease at noon on the day before the next Presidential election. Section 2. The power of the President to pardon shall apply only to a specific offense for which the guilty party...388 comments 510 Recs
- Secular Power Changing America By James A. Haught Here’s a dramatic example of the growing power of Americans who say their religion is “none”: Last spring, progressives in the Washington state legislature, backed by Planned Parenthood, mandated that...30 comments 15 Recs
- The Agenda Project Action Fund has come up with the most brutal, direct political ad I think I've ever seen. It ties the Republican budget-cut mantra directly to the disastrous slashing of CDC and ...391 comments 469 Recs
- It is open season on President Obama. He is a weak president. He is too cautious, they say. Even Hillary Clinton has jumped on the bandwagon. Hillary Clinton seems to be using the international ...407 comments 742 Recs
- I wrote my first Kos diary about a week ago about my husband, Dr Milad Pooran. He’s running for Congress in MD-06, but he’s been deployed on a military medical mission until the end of January. ...8 comments 17 Recs
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- Our most important Founding Father was an abolitionist, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and a man who donated money from proceeds of his pamphlets like "Common sense" to the American revolution.70 comments 163 Recs
- This week, Remote Area Medical, showed up in Inglewood in South Los Angeles, to provide needed medical care to the uninsured ...30 comments 28 Recs
- Now I know that that my fellow kossacks have been skeptical of all the right-wing blather about death panels, and scoffing at the ludicrousness of the supposed theory. But alas, I believe they may ...32 comments 63 Recs
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