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 April 17, 2026

Healthcare Musings For April 17, 2026

April 17, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   A Celebration of a Past Victory In a Time of Great Concern   There was an unusual gathering this past Monday at historic Faneuil Hall on Boston’s waterfront. The current governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey,...
Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2026

Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2026

April 3, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   Moral Injury and Burnout: Different, But Both Challenge The Future Of Healthcare    In 2005, I was 60 years old and beginning to think about when I might retire. I was very busy practicing full-time in the outpatient...
Healthcare Musings For March 20, 2026

Healthcare Musings For March 20, 2026

March 20, 2026 Dear Interested Readers,   Healthcare In The Midst of the President’s Chaos and Anger   As a White House correspondent for the New York Times since 2008, and for 20 years before that for the Washington Post, Peter Baker has been a close...