Reflections on inclusiveness for those who would be leaders

I was interested to read Dr. Braveman's blog post yesterday on Triple Aim.  In that post he stated "What did surprise me was the call for volunteer leaders to stop sharing their opinions and perspectives on such issues with the rationale that the issues can be interpreted by some as political and partisan."  You can read the whole post at http://otconnections.aota.org/community_blogs/b/brentbraveman/archive/2015/01/08/why-we-should-hear-more-about-health-policy-issues-such-as-the-triple-aim-of-healthcare.aspxHe doesn't reference what 'call' he was referring to, but I would like respond to that statement because of the statements I have made on that topic.  I am not aware of any other statements on this topic, but if there was some other 'call' I would like to read it.In any event, related to my postings, I am not aware of any statements I made that could be reasonably interpreted as a call to stop sharing perspectives on issues - what I have 'called' for is respect for political diversity and a decrease to the politicization of the profession.  When AOTA leaders repeatedly promote extreme liberal ideology related to health care reform it can have a chilling impact on the participation of members who do not ascribe to those political methods.This becomes an important issue because if a professional association with a presumably diverse membership begins being driven into a single ideological direction then that is not healthy for the notion of diversity and...
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