Dave's Dispatch

Consumerism In the classic movie drama “Casablanca,” cynical restaurateur Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) operates the rollicking Rick’s Café Américain… Read More

Outcomes As a lifelong soccer fanatic, I’ve enjoyed Apple TV’s “Ted Lasso” more than any show in recent memory…. Read More

Consumerism This month’s song is a parody of the stirring “Do You Hear the People Sing” at the end… Read More

Policy With the U.S. Supreme Court today ruling against the latest challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care… Read More

Consumerism This month’s song is our riff on Joe South’s 1969 megahit “Games People Play.” It’s a song about… Read More

Innovation At 4sight Health, we have never liked the phrase “social determinants of health.” Its meaning is not self-evident,… Read More

Outcomes I listened to Jessie Colin Young’s “Miss Hesitation” nonstop during my first year in college. The song narrates the… Read More

COVID-19 President Nixon and Elvis Presley in the Oval Office on December 21, 1970  Photo: Ollie Atkins via National… Read More

Outcomes Tuesday’s Dispatch featured the New York Times devastating investigative report on corruption, malfeasance and failed government oversight in nursing… Read More