Healthcare Musings For March 15, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Income From Quality   In the early years of this century after the near failure of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, there were very active conversations in Massachusetts about the cost, quality, and access to healthcare...
Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Quality Defined Us   I have gained a new perspective on how to structure what remains of the story of the development of my medical-moral sensibilities. The story up till now has been mostly delivered in chronological...
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 September 16, 2022

Healthcare Musings For September 16, 2022

September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Rethinking How We Deliver Care   In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...
Healthcare Musings For September 9, 2022

Healthcare Musings For September 9, 2022

September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Musing About ACO Disappointments   This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,”  about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
Healthcare Musings For March 25, 2022

Healthcare Musings For March 25, 2022

  March 25, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   To Live in Challenging Times   My goal for this week’s letter was to shift back to writing more directly about healthcare. Despite my plans, I found it hard to completely ignore the Senate hearings on the...