Healthcare

An Open Letter to Tatiana Schlossberg Dear Ms. Schlossberg, I read with great sorrow your New Yorker piece about your diagnosis and the maybe year you have left. About the medications that might buy you more time, if you can afford them, if your insurance approves them, if the system deems you worthy of another sunrise. I’m a stranger, but I’m writing anyway. Not because I can fix what’s broken in your body. But because you’ve spent your career documenting what’s broken in our systems, and I think you’d like to know it can be changed. I have the math, and the application, live and working, to prove it. ...

An Open Letter to Tatiana Schlossberg Dear Ms. Schlossberg, I read with great sorrow your New Yorker piece about your diagnosis and the maybe year you have left. About the medications that might buy you more time, if you can afford them, if your insurance approves them, if the system deems you worthy of another sunrise. I’m a stranger, but I’m writing anyway. Not because I can fix what’s broken in your body. But because you’ve spent your career documenting what’s broken in our systems, and I think you’d like to know it can be changed. I have the math, and the application, live and working, to prove it. ...

LifeLine Medications: The Full Picture This document provides the detailed economics behind the LifeLine Medications initiative. For the human story, see the Letter to Tatiana Schlossberg. The System Problem, Not The People Problem I use the Little Red Hen story as a framework for how the platform works—not as a morality tale, but as a systems diagnostic. The problem isn’t that people won’t help. It’s that they don’t know how to help. Or they’re afraid. Or they’ve been burned before. Or the system is rigged so thoroughly that helping feels impossible. ...