Healthcare Musings For May 5, 2023

Healthcare Musings For May 5, 2023

May 5, 2023   Dear Interested Readers,   Medicine and the Struggle For the Soul of America   One of the members of my Monday morning book group is a woman who is a retired minister and hospital chaplain whose oldest daughter is a physician’s assistant...
Healthcare Musings For April 14, 2023

Healthcare Musings For April 14, 2023

April 14, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Examining The Political Determinants of Health   Last fall, an Interested Reader who lives in Florida sent me an article by Dr. Eric Reinhardt entitled “Medicine for the People: As more and more doctors awaken to the...
Healthcare Musings For April 7, 2023

Healthcare Musings For April 7, 2023

April 7, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Can You Believe That Both Trump and the ACA are in Court?   This week’s news had some variation from what I expected. First, many of the talking heads of television journalists and the pundits that I read in the New...
Healthcare Musings For March 3, 2023

Healthcare Musings For March 3, 2023

March 3, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Three Steps Backwards; Where you live makes difference!   Most of us realize that when Congress failed to extend the Child Tax Credit at the end of 2021 millions of children that had been briefly lifted out of poverty...
Healthcare Musings For January 27, 2023

Healthcare Musings For January 27, 2023

January 27, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Financial Troubles, Workforce Concerns, Access Issues, and Concerns For Quality of Care   One of my biggest post-pandemic surprises is that healthcare has moved down, not up, on the cascade of concerns that worry...
Healthcare Musings For November 4, 2022

Healthcare Musings For November 4, 2022

November 4, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   The Election Next Tuesday Will Impact The Future of Our Democracy and Our Collective Health. No Matter the Outcome, What Will Follow Is Up To Us.   Next Tuesday is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in...