by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 9, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Congressional Budget Office, Consolidation in healthcare, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, out of pocket healthcare costs, pre existing conditions, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
9 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Focusing the Conversation in Order to Make Progress Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, former congressman, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, and later two term mayor of Chicago. Dr. Emanuel was a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 30, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, out of pocket healthcare costs, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
You can be sure that tonight and tomorrow night I will be interested in the outcome of the Red Sox/Tampa Bay games, but I won’t be watching. My eyes and ears will be tuned to round two of the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates in Detroit. Since the last debate,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 23, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Adaptive Change, Creative Destruction, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Public Option, The Triple Aim
The picture in the header of this post is my attempt to create an image that represents Creative Destruction, or if you prefer a more dramatic term, Schumpeter’s gale. I will get back to those terms, but first let me fully explain the meaning of the image by...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 9, 2019 | Activism in Healthcare, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Improving the health of the poor, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
Every Monday morning I am part of a small group that meets to discuss a few chapters of a book that we have been reading together. The books that we read are theological in nature, but related to an ongoing exploration of social justice. As I mentioned a few...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 28, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Competition, Costs, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, healthcare finance, MACRA, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Public Option, The Triple Aim
28 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, The Democrats, Healthcare, and More: It’s Complicated For the past two nights we have had our first look at the twenty highest polling contenders for the nomination of the Democratic Party for president....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 25, 2019 | Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Sister Joan Chittister, The Triple Aim
It was a tough weekend for me. As usual, The Friday “Healthcare Musings” was posted on the Internet at 3 PM on Friday afternoon, but as the minutes, then hours, then days passed without the notice of it existence going out to you I became increasingly distraught....