by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 30, 2026 | "concepts of a plan", 2026 midterm elections, ACA market subsidies, Access to care, AMA vs. universal coverage, Bernie Sanders, David Blumenthal, Dr. Ashish Jha, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, healthcare finance, Life Expectancy, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, RFK Jr.
January 30, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The High Cost of Care Remains an Unsolved Problem For All of Us For many years, there has been too much uncertainty about the future of American healthcare. Even those of us who have coverage that should give us...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 12, 2025 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, ACOs, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Zack Cooper
December 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, I Am Trying to Develop a Little Hope Now and then, I get an unexpected email response to one of these letters. This week, I got one of those surprises in an email from a longtime reader. He wrote: Have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 11, 2024 | a woman's right to make reproductive health choices, Abortion, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Donald Trump, election scenarios, Featured Post, Global Warming, Healthcare Policy, Incremental healthcare improvement, Kamala Harris, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, The 2024 Presidential Election, The Triple Aim, transformational change
October 11, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Incrementalism Has Replaced Transformation As A Strategy To Improve Healthcare If you are a regular reader of these Friday letters, you know that I have bemoaned the fact that unlike 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 2, 2024 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Abortion, Bernie Sanders, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare equity, march-in-rights, Martin Luther King Jr, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, The 2024 Presidential Election, the Harris campaign for president
August 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, What Would Kamala Harris Do For Healthcare If Elected? For almost two weeks now newspapers, podcasts, and television commentators have been busy trying to present Kamala Harris to many potential voters, especially...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACOs, Burnout, Dartmouth Health, Dean Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, improving the delivery of care, Innovation in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Primary Care Challenges, Primary Day in New Hampshire, rural healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Rethinking How We Deliver Care In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 9, 2022 | A story from my life, ACO, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare equity, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Pioneer ACO, Queen Elizabeth, REACH ACO, System Consolidation, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About ACO Disappointments This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,” about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
