Ill-Informed, Incompetent* Health Care Leadership: the Case of President Trump ' s Interview in the New York Times

ConclusionsWe have frequently criticized the leadership of big health care organizations as ill-informed, incompetent, ignorant of or even hostile to the values of health care professionals, deceptive, self-interested, conflicted or even corrupt. The President of the United States is the country ' s most important health care leader, since all government agencies that deal with health, health care, health care policy, etc report to him.  Unfortunately, we have previously discussed examples of how the president appeared to be an ill-informed or incompetent health care leader, for examplehere. So it would be easy to just say that his responses in his recent interview as discussed above just corroborate this opinion. However, in his latest interview with a reporter from the New York Times, it was not that the President of the United States deferred on issues of health policy to health policy experts.  It was not that he was evasive, or exaggerated.  It was not that he advocated policies that were controversial.  It was not even that what he said was untrue.As per the title of Levin ' s commentary, it was that the President created a word salad.  What he said often made no sense.This goes way beyond ill-informed or incompetent leadership as we have used these terms previously.  When we have discussed incompetence, it was in the sense of ordinary English usage.  For example,per Dictionary.com, incompetent means " lacking qualification o...
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