The Facts on CO2 Emissions and the G8

As Bush shifts rhetoric on global warming, the U.S. remains #1 in total millions of metric tons of carbon emitted into the air. Loyalists are now beginning to point the finger at China, as if to say, “They are worse than we are.” It’s true that China isn’t doing that great — with projected annual increases […]

How Do You Measure Success When You’re Driving a Clunker?

When you have as much money as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the question becomes “How do you spend it wisely?” The foundation’s answer? Prove that a strategy or approach works. But to prove it, you have to define the outcomes, then measure them. And as anyone who’s been in the quality management business over the […]

Brailer Comes Home

Dr. David Brailer, former Health IT Czar for the Bush Administration, has literally and figuratively “come home.” While part of the administration, with limited resources, he focused on the need for a coordinated national medical information infrastructure. It (perhaps by necessity) reinforced traditional power silos and an interventional system centered on a primary loop for […]

What I Didn’t Know About Different Colored Eyes

So I opened the Sports section of The New York Times one day last week, and in the bottom right corner was an article titled “Detour on the Scott Boras Express.” Scott Boras is deemed the “most powerful agent in baseball,” but what caught my eye wasn’t the text but the accompanying photo of one of Mr. […]

Transplant Networking

In a prior Health Politics program, I outlined the major disconnect between supply and demand in organ transplantation. The popular press since that time has shed light on the selling of organs and the various ethical and moral issues triggered by this often elicit practice. Jim Tosone, avid subscriber to Health Politics and expert at […]

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