Healthcare Musings For June 16, 2023

Healthcare Musings For June 16, 2023

June 16, 2023  Dear Interested Readers,   What Is Behind the Proposed Kaiser/ Geisinger Deal?   You might have heard that Kaiser is buying Geisinger. I have always held both organizations in high regard. While I was leading Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard...
Healthcare Musings For March 10, 2023

Healthcare Musings For March 10, 2023

March 10, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About How Things Have Changed and Hopefully Will Continue To Change   My wife and I have just returned from a trip to my mother’s hometown in North Carolina where I spent many happy summer days as a child. Our trip...
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 April 1, 2022

Healthcare Musings For April 1, 2022

April 1, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Are We All April’s Fools?   I made an interesting discovery on the Internet. According to Wikipedia, Odessa, the resort city of Ukraine on the Black Sea, is the only city in the world where April 1 is an official...
Healthcare Musings For 9 August 2019

Healthcare Musings For 9 August 2019

9 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Focusing the Conversation in Order to Make Progress   Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, former congressman, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, and later two term mayor of Chicago. Dr. Emanuel was a...