Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2026

Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2026

June 5, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   Paul Krugman, Round 3   This week’s letter completes a three-part review of Paul Krugman’s series on the potential for healthcare to be a defining issue in the 2026 mid-term elections and the 2028 presidential...
Healthcare Musings For May 15, 2026

Healthcare Musings For May 15, 2026

May 15, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   A Sunnami of Change   My wife spends a lot of time on social media. While scrolling through Instagram this week, she came across a quote from Andrew Weinstein that sums up the disgust so many of us feel as we...
Healthcare Musings For May 8, 2026

Healthcare Musings For May 8, 2026

May 8, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   How We Got The Mess We Have   My letter to you last week was a review of Paul Krugman’s Substack letter of April 19, which he published as the first installment of a series he is writing about our healthcare. That first...
Healthcare Musings For May 1, 2026

Healthcare Musings For May 1, 2026

May 1, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   Can We Get To Universal Access To Care Without Big Changes?   Much of my free time and energy for the past two weekends has been spent in Maine around the birth of our newest grandson. He arrived at Maine Medical Center...
Healthcare Musings For March 20, 2026

Healthcare Musings For March 20, 2026

March 20, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   Healthcare In The Midst of the President’s Chaos and Anger   As a White House correspondent for the New York Times since 2008, and for 20 years before that for the Washington Post, Peter Baker has been a close...
Healthcare Musings For March 13, 2026

Healthcare Musings For March 13, 2026

March 13, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   How Wisely Is The President Spending Our Resources?   About an hour and a half after last week’s letter was published, Michael, a retired physician, good friend, and regular reader, posted the comment:   Funny,...