by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 15, 2023 | A personal history, ACA, Atrius Health, Carol Emmott, Charlie Baker, Clay Christensen, Continuous Improvement, Creative Destruction, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Disruptive Innovation, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Joseph Schumpeter, Ken Paulus, Moral Injury, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, utopias
December 15, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Utopian Ideas Versus The Status Quo In Healthcare Less than twenty miles north up Interstate 89 from my home is the Enfield Shaker Museum. I have visited the enclave by Lake Mascoma with its magnificent main...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 30, 2020 | ACA, Angus Deaton and Anne Case, David Brooks, Disruptive Innovation, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, E.J. Dione, Economic inequality, Empathy, Equity, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Jennifer Rubin, Paul Krugman, Progressive Values, Public Health, The 2020 elections, Tom Friedman
October 30, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s About Worthiness For Office, And Much More I am so happy that election day is almost here. I have been averaging over fifty political ads a day in my email. Political ads fill all of the air time on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 1, 2019 | Amazon, Atul Gawande, CVS Health Hubs, Disruptive Innovation, Haven Healthcare, Primary Care, Walgreens, Walmart
1 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What’s Up at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, and Amazon? I was ten years old in 1955 when Volkswagen began marketing its cute “bugs” in America. It was probably the summer of 1956 before I saw my first “VW Beetle.” It...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 30, 2019 | Consumerism in Healthcare, Costs, Culture, Disruptive Innovation, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Transformation, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Zeev Neuwirth
One of my occasional delights over the past few years has been to have a friend or former colleague whom I have admired and learned from send me a manuscript or a recently published book that they have written. I am always a little apprehensive when what has been...
