Meyer Memorial Trust Award

I first heard John Kitzhaber speak about transforming the way we approach health care in the fall of 1989 at Emanuel Hospital in Portland. It wasn’t until October of 2005 that I had an opportunity to meet Governor Kitzhaber. As I learned about his ideas for...

Words Matter

Chris DeMars of the Northwest Health Foundation shared some recent research from Lake Research Partners, a firm hired by the Herndon Alliance to help them craft effective messages regarding health reform. These are the specific words and phrases that (based on this...

Thoughts on Conversations

My son and I went to an event at Wieden and Kennedy on June 13th called “A Conversation About the War, Part 2”, a followup to an event W&K held four years earlier when the war started. Jelly Helm, who works for W&K (and had helped us with this...

Archived Archimedes Movement blog

In our early days we used a website that was primarily focused on interactive blogging and comments to develop a set of principles and a framework for approaching reform. This link will take you to an archived copy of our blog through...