Introducing the Threats to Democracy Roundups

 We started Health Care Renewal in 2004 to address the worsening dysfunction in health care, primarily in the US.  We were about

Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power. Advocating for accountability, integrity, transparency, honesty and ethics in leadership and governance of health care.

But starting in 2015, we began to realize that challenging health care dysfunction can only be done in the context of a reasonably stable and functional democracy.  As threats to democracy ramped up in the US and globally, we realized that our usual discussions of issues such as conflicts of interest and corruption in health care, poor management, lack of transparency, etc became increasingly suffused with the complications induced by ongoing threats to democracy.

Ultimately, we decided to pause Health Care Renewal while we took stock of our role in a changing and increasingly perilous world.

So now we are going to get back in the fray again.  I plan to author a new Health Care Renewal feature, more or less weekly, entitled the Threats to Democracy Roundup.  It will be essentially an old school link list, but focused on key threats to democracy.  Tentatively, we will be listing them under topics such as:

- Hostile foreign influnce

- Conflicts of interest, corruption, and crime

- Propaganda, disinformation, and deception

- Fascism, Nazism, white supremacy, neo-Confederacy, and theocracy/Christian nationalism

I will try to put these in a health care context when appropriate. 

As usual, we appreciate your questions and comments.