Influencers
Chastened and More Sober, Harry & Louise Return
08/21/08
A clever new ad sponsored by powerful DC-insider groups features a reformed Harry and Louise, this time hoping that Congress will make the changes that they opposed during the Clinton years. But reform is unlikely unless the nation's most powerful power-brokers - non-health care business - galvanize and mobilize to drive it.
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A Hat Tip To Dr. Benjamin Spock
05/02/08
Dr. Benjamin Spock was one of the most influential physicians of the 20th Century, not only in how babies were cared for, but later, in his prominent opposition to the US' war in Viet Nam.
Knowledge Like Clear, Clean Water, Muir Gray on Health Care's Progress
04/07/08
Sir Muir Gray's vision of the challenges we now face in health care - he is Chief Knowledge Officer of Britain's National Health Service - merits attention by anyone seriously interested in the topic.
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Rebuilding the Medical Home: What Walgreens Surely Sees
03/27/08
In March 2007, Walgreens suddenly acquired the two largest worksite clinic firms. Combined with their convenience care clinics, this gave them more than 500 primary care sites nationally. They estimate that there are 7,600 employer campuses in America with 1,000 or more employees onsite. Is this the beginning of the true corporatization of primary care. And if corporations come to own primary care's referral base, can't they capture all of health care?
PlumpyNut
01/30/08
Plumpy'Nut, a nutritional bar that can mean the difference between malnourishment and thriving in the world's poorest regions, is an example of the good we can do if we simply care to do it.
Families USA Health Action 2008: An Alternative Plan
01/29/08
Families USA is an impressive organization that has built a formidable platform over the year through its base, consumers. But to achieve the reforms it advocates for, it must leverage that platform with the one group that has enough strength and motive to bring meaningful reforms to fruition: large employers.
Families USA Health Action 2008: Don Berwick MD on Everything
01/28/08
Through patience, an ability to articulate need and solutions, and diplomacy, Dr. Berwick has facilitated tremendous quality advances in hospitals across the country. And that lends him enormous authority to urge the process on. At the Families USA meeting, he described his vision.
Leveraging the Doctor As A Trusted Authority
01/09/08
Doctors have the stature and authority to create tremendous good through public policy. Why don't they use these assets?
Jack LaLanne
01/05/08
Fitness guru, teacher, showman, true believer, Jack LaLanne taught millions of Americans that their bodies were indeed their temples and that anyone could be fitter.
Aspen Health Forum - Removing the Blinders: Dr. Kelman's Wonderful Contribution
10/18/07
Dr. Charles Kelman was a renaissance man, a practitioner and innovator whose contribution to how cataract surgeries are performed transformed the lives of millions of people worldwide. His story was told at the Aspen Institute's Health Forum.
Aspen Health Forum - A Rage To Know: A Few Days At the Aspen Health Forum
10/14/07
I was a Fellow at the 1st Aspen Health Forum, an incredible experience, filled with remarkable people.
