This is the fifth newsletter and it will provide constructs for charitable and just thinking about social issues. It is an overview and summary of Catholic Social Teaching. This newsletter is a summation of teachings presented in a course on Catholic Social Teaching by Father Robert Altier in the Fall of 2018.
According to the National Institute for Mental Health, mental illness accounts for more disability hours than any other cause and over 41,000 people commit suicide each year, more than double the rate of homicide and aids combined. In additional, conservative estimates put the direct and indirect cost of mental illness at over $300 billion annually, placing it third in cost behind heart conditions and trauma injury.
I recently heard a Priest give a talk on General Robert E. Lee and it inspired me and I decided to research it. It involved a church service shortly after the Civil War.
I have found an article on it with two versions of the story. The following is quoted from The Civil War Monitor, “Fantasizing Lee as a Civil Rights Pioneer” by Andy Hall posted 7/23/2012. Please read.
This is the third issue of 20 for 2020 and the subject is poorly defined decision criteria for government agencies and how it can result in calamity and harm: The FDA
When the government starts altering its decisions criteria in a way that strays from its mission to protect, we all suffer and it dilutes the benefit of government, that of a protector.
Today I went to pick up my prescription at a local pharmacy, part of a metropolitan wide health care system and I was informed by the highly trained and very thorough clerk that the pharmacies (all of them in the system) would be closing for good on January 20, 2020. This deeply saddened me and it deeply saddened her. She shared with me she had hoped to work at this job until she retired and that the prospect of working a large national chain where volume and long shifts outweigh care and attention is not how she wants to use her God given talents.
July 2019 is the second issue and it is on How Hospitals Generate Revenue and the Impact of Consolidation.
In the tech industry, there is a saying “where there is mystery there is money” and I think the same can be said of healthcare. Healthcare procurement has some distinctive properties:
COVID-19 became a reality about this time last year and there was a great deal of uncertainty. It was known to be highly, highly contagious and there was fear that it would be like a plague. Aggressive precautions were taken to “stop the spread”, including shut downs of large parts of the American economy.
Dear Minneapolis City Councilmembers and Staff, Legislators, MULDA members, Uber and Lyft Drivers, Uber and Lyft Analysts and other interested parties,
As we conclude our research and writings on the TNC and Taxi Industries and the plight of the Mpls/St. Paul Metro area drivers, we believe the problems brought about by too much venture capital, too little industry research and business model
June 2019 is the first issue and its subject matter is healthcare.
Many of you may be aware of Haven, the health care initiative formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase. It is just getting started and looks to have a technology bent. I recently became aware of Walmart and its approach to healthcare for its employees. It is impressive in its Centers of Excellence Approach and in its findings
Dear President Trump,
I hope this newsletter finds you healthy, safe and not succumbing to fear during this sacred and challenging time of change. I am so pleased to see that when confronted with life and death issues many of our leaders, including Gov. Cuomo and Bill Gates are affirming life.
The false notion that we must choose between the economy and life is ungodly, so silly and frankly un American.