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 29, 2026

Healthcare Musings For May 29, 2026

May 29, 2026 Dear Interested Readers   Looking Past Policy Failures To Human Nature   My letter to you two weeks ago revealed that my wife’s PCP had retired and that the practice was unable to provide her with a new PCP. She had originally been assigned to...
Healthcare Musings For May 22, 2026

Healthcare Musings For May 22, 2026

May 22, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   If We Hope To Move Ahead Someday, We Need To Know How We Got Here.   Last week’s letter was a bit of a downer. I reported that the Wellesley Offices of Atrius Health had told my wife that she needed to go elsewhere to...
Healthcare Musings For May 15, 2026

Healthcare Musings For May 15, 2026

May 15, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   A Sunnami of Change   My wife spends a lot of time on social media. While scrolling through Instagram this week, she came across a quote from Andrew Weinstein that sums up the disgust so many of us feel as we...
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...