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,...
Can You Believe What’s Happening One Week Before The Election?

Can You Believe What’s Happening One Week Before The Election?

  In one week the retrograde Mercury will be over, Election Day will be behind us, and we will enter the next phase of uncertainty in the process of electing the president. The retrograde has been tough on me these last few weeks. There have been several...
Healthcare Musings For 27 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 27 December 2019

  27 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Looking Back At 2019 As We Think About 2020   I am a maker of New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of year again. Looking back on 2019 I did a pretty good job. I had some partial successes, and some of my...
Healthcare Musings For 13 September 2019

Healthcare Musings For 13 September 2019

13 September 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Looking For Answers While Hoping A Leader Might Emerge From A Raucous Conversation.   I made the mistake of waiting until I had witnessed the third Democratic debate last night before writing this letter to you. I...
Healthcare Musings For 9 August 2019

Healthcare Musings For 9 August 2019

9 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Focusing the Conversation in Order to Make Progress   Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, former congressman, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, and later two term mayor of Chicago. Dr. Emanuel was a...
Healthcare Musings For 2 August 2019

Healthcare Musings For 2 August 2019

2 August 2019   Dear Interested Readers,   What Have We Learned So Far From Listening To The Democratic Debates?   This last week we entertained some old friends from Massachusetts. We were neighbors. We attended the same church. We share many fond...