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 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 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...
Healthcare Musings For October 3, 2025

Healthcare Musings For October 3, 2025

October 3, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Slipsliding Away: Healthcare’s Impending Decline in a “Failing Democracy”   I imagine that many of my readers are tired of my comments about politics and the threat that President Trump poses to continuous...
Healthcare Musings For May 30, 2026

Healthcare Musings For May 30, 2026

May 30, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Education, Research, Academic Freedom, and the Social Determinants of Health   Of all the things our president has done, which are very difficult to understand, nothing has seemed more counterproductive to me than his...