by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 25, 2019 | Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Population Health, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics
25 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Who Is Responsible? A few weeks ago, for the first post of the year, I returned to writing about the intersection of poverty and healthcare. One motivation was the realization that this year was the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 18, 2018 | ACA, Featured Post, Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA, political polarization, pre existing conditions, Presidential Politics, the Mandate
Since the latest open enrollment period for the ACA ended on December 15, I thought that now would be a good time to review all of the administrative attacks that the Trump administration had made on this much maligned law. It amazes me that a law that has given so...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, Featured Post, Health in America, Presidential Politics, the healthcare debate, The Supreme Court and Healthcare
9 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers Where From Here? I finished the Strategy Healthcare post for November 6, Election Day, with the following statement: I am hopeful, not optimistic, that this election will initiate a set of events that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 30, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, Presidential Politics, Senator Jeff Merkley, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
With the growing concerns about the need for change and the approaching election, last Sunday afternoon my wife and I volunteered to go door to door for our local Democratic Party in a “get out the vote” effort. We do not want to wake up in two weeks on November 7...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 23, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Presidential Politics
Last May I lifted the title and the hook from one of Paul Simon’s songs to write “Is the Triple Aim ‘Slip Slidin’ Away?” The recurrent passage or chorus in the song is: Slip slidin’ away Slip slidin’ away You know the nearer your destination The...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 9, 2018 | Activism in Healthcare, Brett Kavanaugh, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Presidential Politics, The Triple Aim
There is a lot of wisdom and a call for strategic thinking behind the wisdom of the old Maine aphorism, “You can’t get there from here.” The phrase has been around a lot longer than the Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan, “Bert and I” comedy routines. The phrase is the...