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Ted’s Take: Priorities Should Inform Policy Decisions and Politics
Setting priorities is important. It helps get things accomplished particularly when there are multiple tasks to do. It gives order to those tasks we want to accomplish.

Ted’s Take: Longevity in Healthcare
Some suggest that the solution to healthcare’s current workforce shortage is to focus strategies on employee retention.

Ted’s Take: Why isn’t cost a consideration in FDA approval?
Debate over the debt limit is dominating the news, but consider this staggering fact: In 2021, the US spent $378 billion on prescription drugs alone.

Ted Take: Why Foundations (and Hospitals) Suffer in Their Effectiveness
There are many tax-exempt foundations, including most hospitals, and each serves a purpose.

Thankful for friends of the JKTG Foundation
Last month, the Foundation was able connect with people in-person at the 6th annual symposium, Moving Breast Cancer Treatments Forward – seeing new ideas spark as some of the best and brightest researchers and clinicians discussed their work.

Ted’s Take: Belief System
I remember a 2015 lecture by Brendan Nyhan PhD from Dartmouth in reporting on a study about the belief system and the engrained thinking it can enable.

Ted’s Take: Structural Deficits
Much of how government behaves stems from a little-known characteristic known as a “structural deficit” with an outsize impact on future budgets and policy.

Ted’s Take: In the Mirror
Most of what we accomplish or what we do relies on one thing – our own actions.

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