by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 17, 2017 | ACA, Costs, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Repeal and Replace, Strategy, the healthcare debate
Readers of these postings are familiar with my use of the term VUCA, an acronym that is derived from the realization that we live in a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. I have asserted before that our state of uncertainty about the future of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 27, 2016 | ACA, Clinician Action Network, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, National Physicians Alliance, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
I was not at all surprised to read the AMA’s strong statement of support for the appointment of Representative Tom Price to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. I was also not surprised to read articles of outrage from more progressive physicians about the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 6, 2016 | ACA, Featured Post, Medicaid Reform, Medicare Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
As the President Elect announced his choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services and for the Administrator of CMS, I could not help but think back to the several times when as CEO of Atrius Health I had gone to the offices of HHS at 200 Independence Avenue SW,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 15, 2016 | ACA, Costs, Featured Post, Mindset, Politics, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
The election outcome should not have been a surprise. We should have recognized the uncertainty produced by anger and deep divisions on many issues. The “establishment” Republican party seemed to be in shambles. The Democratic party did not recognize that it had lost...