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 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 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 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 August 2, 2024

Healthcare Musings For August 2, 2024

August 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   What Would Kamala Harris Do For Healthcare If Elected?   For almost two weeks now newspapers, podcasts, and television commentators have been busy trying to present Kamala Harris to many potential voters, especially...
Healthcare Musings For September 16, 2022

Healthcare Musings For September 16, 2022

September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Rethinking How We Deliver Care   In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...