Healthcare Musings For November 1, 2024

Healthcare Musings For November 1, 2024

November 1, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Can You Survive Five More Anxious Days?   There are times when it seems that time stands still. The last month has crept along for me. It feels like it has been a decade since Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with...
Healthcare Musings For October 25, 2024

Healthcare Musings For October 25, 2024

October 25, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Looking Back With Some Nostalgia. Looking Forward With Hope   Today, eleven years ago, I sent out my last letter, number 296, to the Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health employees. Initially, the salutation on my...
Healthcare Musings For October 18, 2024

Healthcare Musings For October 18, 2024

October 18, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Thoughts While Trying To Manage My Anxiety Waiting For November 5th and What Might Follow a Tight Election   Until recently the healthcare implications of the election have been ignored by the candidates, the...
Healthcare Musings For October 11, 2024

Healthcare Musings For October 11, 2024

October 11, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Incrementalism Has Replaced Transformation As A Strategy To Improve Healthcare   If you are a regular reader of these Friday letters, you know that I have bemoaned the fact that unlike 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020,...
Healthcare Musings For October 4, 2024

Healthcare Musings For October 4, 2024

October 4, 2024 Dear Interested Readers:   Thirty-two Days to Go and Counting Down   In the Healthcare Musings letter for last week, I reviewed the relationship between the Structural Determinants of Health, the Political Determinants of Health, and the...
Healthcare Musings For September 27, 2024

Healthcare Musings For September 27, 2024

September 27, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Exploring The Structural Determinants of Health   When I became a healthcare CEO in February 2008, I was more focused on what happened within our organization and our relationships with our affiliated hospitals...
Healthcare Musings For September 20, 2024

Healthcare Musings For September 20, 2024

, September 20, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   He Has “Concepts of a Plan”   The most interesting moment for me in last week’s debate between former President Trump and Vice President Harris was when the questions moved to healthcare. I have found that the...
Healthcare Musings For September 13, 2024

Healthcare Musings For September 13, 2024

September 13, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections On Childless Cat Ladies and Illeagal Immigrants Consuming Pets   As 9 PM on Tuesday evening approached, I could feel myself getting more and more tense. There were big questions. Would Vice President...
Healthcare Musings For September 6, 2024

Healthcare Musings For September 6, 2024

6 September 2024  Dear Interested Readers,   The Healthcare Challenges In Small-town and Rural America Are Coming To The City   If you live in rural America, a small town, or in a less desirable neighborhood in America, your access to primary care, your...
Healthcare Musings For August 30, 2024

Healthcare Musings For August 30, 2024

August 30, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Standing On A Solid Platform    Back on July 12, when Democrats were still in disarray, I tried to write about the healthcare platforms of both parties. To my surprise, perhaps because the Democratic Convention was...