by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 11, 2019 | Featured Post, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, synthesis, The Triple Aim
11 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis: Developing a Poverty Dialog I began my writing almost eleven years ago as a device that I hoped might promote a dialog within our practice. I felt that we had challenges ahead,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 4, 2019 | Democratic control of the House, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
4 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, We Must Address Poverty and the Social Determinants of Health I have the opinion that most Americans do not understand or spend much time thinking about the term “social determinants of health”, or connect...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 14, 2018 | "Wicked Problems" in Healthcare, Costs, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Social Determinants of Health, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Sustainability, The Triple Aim
14 December 2014 Dear Interested Readers, Sustainability, a Foundational Concern for Healthcare Late Wednesday afternoon I decided to take a walk, since the hike in the woods that I took with a friend earlier in the day had been more about...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 7, 2018 | Benefits of the ACA, Brett Kavanaugh, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim
7 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Countering Despair, Maybe “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. That’s Stein’s Law. Herbert Stein was a bright man. He was a conservative economist, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 24, 2018 | Future of Heathcare, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
24 August 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Reader Alert! This week’s letter lives up to the title of “Healthcare Musings.” Perhaps it should be entitled “Political Musings in Search of a Connection to Healthcare.” I have excuses for the “peripatetic” nature of this...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 31, 2018 | FQHCs, Healthcare Policy, Improving the health of the poor, Life Expectancy, Population Health Management, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
Recent circumstances have moved me to take a closer look at the importance of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and their important role in the immediate future of the evolution of better care for the underserved populations of our nation. I have the bias that...