This Week on The Preamble: Health Care

Each week, our team digs into one subject — chosen by you — and asks the questions that matter. What’s true? How did we get here? And what does it say about us? This week, we dive into health care.

Friends,

We’re living in an age of medical miracles. We can edit genes, cure diseases that once meant certain death, ship a donated kidney on a commercial flight, and see a provider via Zoom.

And yet, for all that progress, our story remains unfinished. This is actually excellent news, because it means we still get to steer where we’re headed.

This week, we’re looking at what happens when progress races ahead, and what gets left behind in its shadow. From the families whose lives were saved by gene therapy, to the doctors disappearing from primary care, to the quiet epidemic of loneliness, each story in this issue wrestles with the same idea:

We’re better than ever at saving lives. The question now is whether we still know how to care for them.

Come read. The answers might surprise you.

Sharon McMahon, Editor-in-Chief