by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 26, 2021 | ACA, Atrium Health, Economic inequality, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, healthcare finance, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Joe Knowles, Medicare For All, out of pocket healthcare costs, Social Determinants of Health, Surprise Medical Bills, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare, Zeev Neuwirth
March 26, 2021 Dear Interested Reader, Have We Forgotten That The Cost of Care Is A Problem? I mention the Triple Aim in many of my posts. In my opinion, the best graphic that presents the concept was created by the Institute For Healthcare...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 23, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, a personal testimony, A Promised Land By Barack Obama, ACA, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Jonathan Haidt, Marcus Borg, Nicholas Kristof, Polarization in America, Racial Inequality, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, TARP, the filibuster, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
One of the most intriguing challenges of the Trump era for me has been to explain his ability to attract the vigorous and loyal support of the religious right and working-class White voters in red states. What has been a puzzling observation of many liberal and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 16, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Featured Post, Health and Human Services, Medicare For All, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, telehealth, The Public Option, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Xavier Bacerra, Xavier Becerra
Time flies. It has been almost two months since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were inaugurated. With each passing day, it becomes harder to imagine that we ever elected Donald Trump as prescient. My health has improved. I get more sleep. During the “Trump...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 12, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, ACA, ACO, Adaptive Change, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, capitation, Continuous Improvement, Dean Robert Ebert, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Process Improvement, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The 1619 Project, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, The President's Trial in The Senate, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
February 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Health System Accountability for Heath Care, Quality, Equity, and Cost It’s been a remarkable week in Washington. One of the benefits of retirement is that every day is Saturday. I have spent most of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 9, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, ACA, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Increase health care delivery systems’ preparedness for health disasters., Inequality in Healthcare, Public Health, Racial Inequality
By 6:30 on Sunday evening, I was filled to overflowing with Super Bowl hype. How many times can you hear the “G.O.A.T.” versus the “best of these times” line before you are ready to throw something at the television? The only recurrent line that has drawn more...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 5, 2021 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, ACA, American exceptionalism, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Black Lives Matter, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Economic inequality, Future of Heathcare, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, John McCain, political polarization, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare, Zoonosis
February 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Time To Start Again I am sure that I am not alone in my current strange mix of hope and residual fear. I am feeling much better now that Joe Biden is in the Oval office, but prior traumas are hard to...
