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,...
Healthcare Musings For January 30, 2026

Healthcare Musings For January 30, 2026

January 30, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   The High Cost of Care Remains an Unsolved Problem For All of Us   For many years, there has been too much uncertainty about the future of American healthcare. Even those of us who have coverage that should give us...
Healthcare Musings For January 9, 2026

Healthcare Musings For January 9, 2026

January 9, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   In the Midst of Chaos We Can Focus On Community   Should we say that 2026 is off to a strange start? Our president is now “running” Venezuela. There is adventure on the high seas as we “capture” oil freighters with...
Healthcare Musings For December 12, 2025

Healthcare Musings For December 12, 2025

December 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   I Am Trying to Develop a Little Hope   Now and then, I get an unexpected email response to one of these letters. This week, I got one of those surprises in an email from a longtime reader. He wrote:   Have...
Healthcare Musings For November 14, 2025

Healthcare Musings For November 14, 2025

November 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Mixed Feelings About the End of the Shutdown   For over forty days, the shutdown was painful and, at its worst, hard to rationalize, as it was always doubtful that the Republicans would ever agree to the primary...