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 June 7, 2024

Healthcare Musings For June 7, 2024

June 7, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Political Dermanents of Health   I have written many letters to you that focus on the various aspects of the social determinants of health. Much less frequently I have mentioned the political determinants of health. As...
Healthcare Musings For August 7, 2020

Healthcare Musings For August 7, 2020

  August 7, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Pandemic’s Message To Us About Healthcare Policy   Earlier this week in a post entitled “The Peril We Face Has Been A Long Time Coming,” I reviewed an excellent article by Ed Jong who writes for The...
Employer Provided Insurance v. Single Payer Healthcare: Not All the Differences Are Obvious

Employer Provided Insurance v. Single Payer Healthcare: Not All the Differences Are Obvious

I admit to having groupie tendencies and team loyalties. The liability of being committed to a favorite entertainer, author, philosophy, religion, type of music, or team is that each is bound to have its problems, inconsistencies, or failures and then those...
Healthcare Musings For 12 April 2019

Healthcare Musings For 12 April 2019

12 April 2019   Dear Interested Readers,   What Can We Do About The Poverty Where We Live?   I am reading a new book, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will To Survive by Stephanie Land. Over the past two years I have searched for books in my...
Healthcare Musings For 22 March 2019

Healthcare Musings For 22 March 2019

  22 March 2019   Dear Interested Readers,   Musing With Friends About Healthcare   This week’s letter lives up to the title of “Healthcare Musings.” The dictionary says that musings are periods of reflection or thought. I would add that when I am...