Is Healthcare a Right, a Personal Responsibility, or Something Else?

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Bart Windrum in healthcare reform

Here’s what bugs me: the divisive oversimplification of the USA healthcare debate. Republicans say that healthcare is a Personal Responsibility. Democrats say that healthcare is a Right. I say phooey. Healthcare is an aspect of the commons that advanced societies provide for their citizens, communally. Once an advanced system is built out, after several generations, […]

One Civilian’s Take on the Lown2015 RightCare Conference

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Bart Windrum in healthcare reform

In December 2013 I attended my first Lown Institute conference. That theme was From Avoidable Care to Right Care. Even though I knew that the group embraced “slow medicine” values, I didn’t really get their essence until hearing Dr. Bernard Lown’s keynote in which this now-frail, iconic man (who reminded me in several ways of my […]