Healthcare Musings For December 19, 2025

Healthcare Musings For December 19, 2025

December 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Remembering During the Holidays That Not Everyone Has Enough to Eat, and Trying to Do Something About It.   “Food insecurity” is a good enough phrase, but my take is that it is a clinical euphemism that takes the...
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...
Healthcare Musings For November 7, 2025

Healthcare Musings For November 7, 2025

November 7, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Politics, Primary Care, and the Social Determinants of Health   Tuesday’s elections brought a little bit of relief for those of us who have suffered a sense of loss every day since President Trump’s second...
Healthcare Musings For October 24, 2025

Healthcare Musings For October 24, 2025

October 24, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Sharing A Little Common Ground With Some on the Right, and a Few Positive Aspects of the Corporatization of Healthcare, As We Endure the “Shutdown.”   In several editions of this weekly letter during...
Healthcare Musings For October 10, 2025

Healthcare Musings For October 10, 2025

10 October 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   The Shutdown Is An Exercise in the Political Determinants of Health   In this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a poignant essay can be found at the end of the “Perspectives” section. It was...