Health Care Renewal
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Addressing threats to health care's core values, and now larger threats to the democracy needed to advance health and welfare
It seems to me... if Trump is beholden to the leader, Putin, of a hostile foreign power, Russia, none of his actions, none of his orders are legitimate, his election was not legitimate, no obedience of him is required, or even legal
Trump runs a war "See the guy peeking through the curtain in the background? He’s in the Mar a Lago ballroom...another zillionaire party was going on" then went "to his ultra-secure War Room...followed the action as the first bombs were dropped on Iran" luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-tell...
Note, Cerberus Capital Management helped create and then run into ground the inaptly named Steward Health Care. We wrote a lot about the origins of this mess on Health Care Renewal: hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label...
The first roll of 35mm film I shot: here's what the SS United States once looked like
10 commandments of defiance www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Report from friends in Des Moines, IA. No Kings protest estimated by Des Moines register to have drawn >7000 people
Local No Kings Day protest, Warren, RI: 508 people counted for a small town
We summarized Trump's long history of impunity here: Trump's Higher Impunity Revisited hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2023/07/trum...
Rattled? Take a deep breath, and remember Trump is just the Wizard behind the curtain off-stage. It's all shock and awe, the fire hose of BS, smoke and mirrors. Step back, think, understand the internal contradictions, notice the lies, act find a piece to pick apart
"before he took power Hitler had always asserted 'Neither I nor anybody else in the National-Socialist Party advocated proceeding by anything but Constitutional methods" John Roy Carlson, Undercover, 1943 [see "membership cards and buttons from self-styled 'patriotic' groups of that time]
Book warns "that any political group which adopts the slogan 'America First' may go the way of 'Germany First' or 'France First, for those countries, too, had their nativist Quislings and a smug segment of the populace which insisted that it could not happen here" John Roy Carlson, Under Cover, 1943
The Revolving Door In Health Care Regulation "Of people appointed to the DHHS between 2004 and 2020, 15 percent had been employed in private industry immediately before their appointment. At the end of their tenure, 32 percent exited to industry" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37669494/
As we struggled to convince doctors to resist the dysfunction of commercialized health care on Health Care Renewal, we were often dismayed about how many put seemed to careerism over courage in defending professional values hcrenewal.blogspot.com