Healthcare Musings For March 28, 2025

Healthcare Musings For March 28, 2025

March 28, 2025 Dear Interesed Readers,   Weird, Confusing, and Ultimately Very Problematic   “You can’t make this stuff up” is one of the most overused and tired clichĂ©s in our language, but it has popped into my mind almost every day during the first two...
Healthcare Musings For March 21, 2025

Healthcare Musings For March 21, 2025

March 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   A Constitutional Crisis? And Other Practical And Moral Injuries   Most presidents use the “honeymoon” of the first one hundred days of a new term to get much of their campaign agenda translated into laws that might...
Healthcare Musing For March 14, 2025

Healthcare Musing For March 14, 2025

March 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Radical Versus Rational Change   Donald Trump roared into office claiming that he had a mandate for radical changes in government structure and policy that his supporters believed would “make America great again.” He...
Healthcare Musings For March 7, 2025

Healthcare Musings For March 7, 2025

March 7, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Our Healthcare Is Threatened By “Right-wing Woke”    I wish I was creative enough to have coined the phrase “right-wing woke,” but the honor belongs to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. I knew that he had “hit...
Healthcare Musings For February 28, 2025

Healthcare Musings For February 28, 2025

February 28, 2025   Dear Interested Readers,   A Reverse Robin Hood? Will Cuts In Benefits For The Poor Finance Tax Cuts For The Rich?   Last week I had the revelation that I have a lot of conservative DNA that has been hiding within my desire to...
Healthcare Musings For February 21, 2025

Healthcare Musings For February 21, 2025

February 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Maybe Trump’s Radical Ways Are Revealing That I Am A Conservative   Last Thursday I was delighted to see that David Brooks had a new opinion piece in the New York Times. His column usually comes out every...
Healthcare Musings For February 14, 2025

Healthcare Musings For February 14, 2025

February 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Primary Care Has Changed Since 1975   For several weeks, I have felt a need to write about primary care. When I try to write to express my concerns about primary care, I am derailed by yet another outrageous event...
Healthcare Musings For February 7, 2025

Healthcare Musings For February 7, 2025

7 February 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   As The Chaos Continues, I Want to Reflect On Primary Care, But Can’t.   In a New York Times opinion piece entitled “This Isn’t Reform. It’s Sabotage.” written by David Wallace-Wells and published on Wednesday...
Healthcare Musings For January 31, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 31, 2025

January 31, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Trump’s Campaign of Strategic Chaos Continues: Implications For Healthcare   Over the last week, President Trump has challenged Democrats to a game of political “Whack-a-Mole” with a flurry of outrageous executive...
Healthcare Musings For January 24, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 24, 2025

January 24, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   A Wild Week Makes Me Wonder About What Comes Next   I didn’t watch Trump’s inauguration. From the reviews I have read of his speech and the event that replaced the parade where he was signing executive orders and...