Primary Care and Rural Health Systems Are Victims of COVID-19. What’s Next For Them?

Primary Care and Rural Health Systems Are Victims of COVID-19. What’s Next For Them?

  I was on a socially distanced walk with my seventeen year old granddaughter this week, and we were talking about how quickly and unexpectedly life has changed. She and her parents usually come every summer for a quick visit. They fly into Logan Airport on a...
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...
Transitioning the Conversation from Medicare For All to Medicare for All Who Want It

Transitioning the Conversation from Medicare For All to Medicare for All Who Want It

Since last week’s First Democratic Presidential Primary debates I keep thinking about Medicare for All versus Medicare for All Who Want It. I am sure there are many things about this complex conversation that I do not completely understand, and in that regard I think...
Healthcare Musings For 28 June 2019

Healthcare Musings For 28 June 2019

28 June 2019   Dear Interested Readers,   The Democrats, Healthcare, and More: It’s Complicated   For the past two nights we have had our first look at the twenty highest polling contenders for the nomination of the Democratic Party for president....
Healthcare Musings For 19 April 2019

Healthcare Musings For 19 April 2019

19 April 2019   Dear Interested Readers,   Troy Brennan And CVS Are Betting on Medicare For All and Risk   This week I traveled to Boston for the annual meeting of the combined boards that serve the Boston Medical Center. There is a hospital board....