Healthcare Musings For April 12, 2024

Healthcare Musings For April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   I Don’t Understand Why Healthcare Isn’t A Top Political Issue   My adventures in healthcare continued this week with my much-anticipated first post-op appointment with my surgeon at Dartmouth which was three weeks...
Healthcare Musings For September 17, 2021

Healthcare Musings For September 17, 2021

September 17, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Why Is Universal Healthcare Coverage Such an Elusive Goal?   This week’s New England Journal of Medicine has two thought-provoking articles in its “Perspectives” section. The first article is “State Public Option...
Healthcare Musings For May 14, 2021

Healthcare Musings For May 14, 2021

  May 14, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   What Is Joe Going to Do?   I am waiting to have President Biden give us more information about how he will move us closer to universal access to care. During the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates, one of...
“The World Continues To Vex Good People Everywhere.”

“The World Continues To Vex Good People Everywhere.”

  I lifted the phrase, “…the world continues to vex good people everywhere,” from the notes associated with the song my son put on the Internet yesterday. Those eight words spoke to me, and described my feeling that we are being swept toward an uncertain,...
Healthcare Musings For August 21, 2020

Healthcare Musings For August 21, 2020

  August 21, 2020 Dear Interested Readers.   What A Week!   The post on Tuesday reviewed the first night of the Democratic Convention. The high point of the evening was the speech by Michelle Obama. Some of the commentators I heard suggested that it was...
Healthcare Musings For March 6, 2020

Healthcare Musings For March 6, 2020

  March 6, 2020 Dear Interested Reader,   What’s Next ?   February was a terrible month. Not only were we dazed and confused by the explosion of the coronavirus, or if prefer, Covid-19, followed by the collapse of the stock market, but the Red Sox...