New Orleans With all of the chatter about this so-called fiscal “cliff,” it seems the real danger is not to the poor rich, who might have to start paying at least a little more of their fair share of taxes, but to the real poor who are being threatened directly with every word out of …
Category: Health Care
What we get from the Victory: Immigration, Wage Action, Student Loans, Infrastructure, Etc
New Orleans We had this, and I’m with Nate Silver of the 538 column and blog of the Times: this was not “too close to call” unless we got rid of the Electoral College and didn’t tell anyone. Watching Obama win every single battleground state except North Carolina, pretty much cheek and jowl with all …
Cheesecake Factory Model for Big Medicine Healthcare Delivery
New Orleans Catching up on back issues of the New Yorker from my time off-the-grid, I stumbled onto a great piece by Dr. Atul Gawande on “Big Med.” Believe it or not, he shrewdly argues that huge service industry operations, like the Cheesecake Factory of all places, might just be the model for a different …