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Tom Ricketts
The The Point of this of thisPresentation
is that Rural Health is that Rural Health Policy needs needs stewardshipstewardship
The The PointPoint of this of thisPresentationPresentation
is that Rural Health is that Rural Health PolicyPolicy needs needs stewardshipstewardship
Welcome toArt Appreciation 101
fall semester, 2007
Professor Ricketts
The POWER to compel people toget on airplanes in August to
come to Washington, DC—that’s real power
Real POWER
Happy 23rd
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In the tradition of America’s In the tradition of America’s first grant writerfirst grant writer
Franklin was proposinga totally new projectto a distant bureaucratin a faraway city withreally big buildings,fountains, and a largebureaucracy that ranthe place
He got the funding!
• But implementation met with serious problems, people fighting and arguing
• The project didn’t meet its timeline• The outcome ended up being a
conference in Philadelphia• The funder eventually lost interest—and
his head
Rural America:Big Politics
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Politics can be strange these days
OMB’s New Micro-politan
PARADIGM STICKPARADIGM STICK
Access vs Finance
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RICHPOORRURALURBANRICHPOORRURALURBAN
Geographic Rate Ratio 2:1
Regional Rates, all causes, black males
Geographic Rate Ratio 4:1
RURALITY•NONRURALITY AND HEALTH
• How does ruralrelate to health
• Is there somethingunique ABOUT
NONURBAN health”
Communities of need and communities of solution.
Figure 1: Communities of Solutionfrom Health is a Community Affair
Source: (National Commission on Community Health Services, 1966, p. 3.)
Describing problems in terms of inequity and disparity tends to divorce communities of solution from the problem.
The political economy of underservice
…where need has value!
HPSA Trends
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Number of HPSAS No. of Primary Physicians Needed
underserved
Lots of little color-coded indicators
Pointillist evaluation…how the big picture can look
PART Assessments
Fairness of outcomeversus
fairness of process
What did we want to happen then?
How can we make that happen now?
Stop Now!
Setting Standards has Setting Standards has consequences…consequences…
Thomas Edison andThomas Edison andGeorge WestinghouseGeorge Westinghousefought over whether to usefought over whether to useAC or DC current in powerAC or DC current in powertransmission…Westinghousetransmission…Westinghouse(AC) won because it was (AC) won because it was thought transmission would be thought transmission would be over short distancesover short distances
AC is less efficient than DC and requires huge “high
tension” wires to transmit
“Paradigm Stick”