Greetings from The Chair
Welcome to Medical Care’s Winter Newsletter. We hope this will be a place where members can share news as well as Section business. Announcements of events and achievements are welcome. We are now a couple of months into the second decade of the 21st Century. It seems like yesterday that we were worrying about Y2K and the dawning of the new millennium. It turns out we were worrying about the wrong thing. The millennium bug was a solvable technical problem. Today, our concerns are rooted in the structure of our economy and the politics and culture it has generated. Two years into an economic downturn the population faces extreme job loss despite GDP growth, and one year into a promising new presidential administration, the opposition party has become rabidly, virulently nay-saying. Can anyone remember when the filibuster was used to this extent? Civil rights in the '50s? Last night, Vice President Biden said he had not seen anything like this in his near 40 years in the Senate. A super majority is necessary to get anything done. Paralysis threatens health reform and many other needed changes. So, please, weigh in on electoral politics, health reform and clean energy even if you feel you must hold your nose. Everything regarding a healthier, safer, cleaner America is at stake.
Regards,
Mona Sarfaty, MD MPH FAAFP
|