by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 10, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Conservative Values, Costs, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Jonathan Haidt, Liberal Values, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, political polarization, Universal Access
10 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Do We Need To Better Understanding How Our Values Vary Before We Can Reform Healthcare? I am always excited when I see an interesting article in the “Perspective Section” of the New England Journal of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 31, 2019 | ACA, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Global Warming, Healthcare challenges for the "Twenties', healthcare finance, Healthcare Transformation, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
I am so glad that it is going to be the 20s tomorrow. Bye-bye to a so-so decade. This New Year should be very interesting. There should be events that occur this year that will have a long term significance in our collective experience. I always embrace the New...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 27, 2019 | ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Big Five Tech Companies Invade Healthcare, Costs, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Medicare For All, Strategy Formation, The 2020 elections, The Public Option, Universal Access
27 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back At 2019 As We Think About 2020 I am a maker of New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of year again. Looking back on 2019 I did a pretty good job. I had some partial successes, and some of my...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 20, 2019 | ACA, Activism in Healthcare, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Impeachment of Donald Trump, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
20 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts At The Winter Solstice The Winter Solstice this year occurs tomorrow, December 21, at 11:20 PM while I am waiting for the opening skit of Saturday NIght Live. It will be the shortest day of the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 3, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Polarization in America, Repeal and Replace, Universal Access
After last Friday’s missive had been up on the Internet for a little while, I got a question from an interested reader who lives nearby and frequently walks with me. He wrote: Gene, Do I know the person you walked with? Peter’s video is amazing....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 25, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, ACO, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MassHealth, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
25 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Pondering What the Future Might Hold My last letter to my colleagues at Atrius Health was published on October 25, 2013. In that letter I reviewed what I thought some of the challenges of the future would...