The Moral of the Boeing Story

If you’ve seen the title of this week’s Health Politics program, you might be thinking to yourself: what can health care learn from Boeing? Seems a little out there, right? But as you’ll see when you watch the video, the idea isn’t all that crazy. Industries outside of health care go through transformational change all […]

Caring for the Critically Ill — Not a Job Description for Politicians

Dr. Chris Johnson, former director of Mayo Clinic’s pediatric ICU, has written an important book. It was published by New Horizon Press and is titled “Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face.” Chris makes the case for personalizing care, informed mutual decision making and trusting America’s families to make the right […]

Thinking About Long-Term Care Insurance?

Have you thought much about long-term care insurance? I’m sure that depends on your age, the age of your parents, and your income – but I want you to know it’s worth consideration, no matter where you are in life. Why? Because 60% of current 65 year olds will need some kind of long-term care in […]

The iPhone, Feature Creep, and Healthy Homes

Here’s a startling fact. According to a study by Philips Electronics, product returns in the U.S. cost $100 billion dollars a year; and over half of those products returned have nothing wrong with them. Why are they returned? In at least half of the cases, the customers either can’t get them to work or find them too […]

Riding the Santa Monica Freeway

I was recently out on a visit to the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s long-term care facilities in Woodland Hills, CA (very impressed), and in the process experienced, for the first extended period, traffic on LA’s Santa Monica Freeway (not so impressed). That is why my eye caught the May 7, 2007, issue of U.S. […]

Blowing Hot Air at Short-Term Capitalism

Not paying attention to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming would not have been a great idea under even normal circumstances. But as it turned out, that moment of opportunity occurred at a time when carbonization of the planet’s atmosphere was reaching a critical point of self-escalation. Why? Because global warming is complex and one […]

Gro Brundtland to the Rescue (of the Planet)

Back in 1998, as head of the WHO, Gro Harlem Brundtland, a physician and public servant from Norway, spoke with confidence from her global platform and saw her message being amplified by the exploding Internet. She repositioned health as part goodness and part fairness, emphasizing science, training and technologic discovery in equal measures with equity, justice […]

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