by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 26, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, 340B, Administrative Burden, Health in America, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Improving the health of the poor, patient centered care, System Consolidation, telehealth, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
February 26, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Can We Balance Regulatory and Competitive Approaches to Promoting a High Performing Health System? This is the sixth and final installment of my review of the report of the Commonwealth Fund’s task force...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 16, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Dr. Robert Ebert, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Innovation in Healthcare, medical home, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the centrality of Primary Care, the filibuster, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
If you have avoided these notes for the past few weeks, you may not know that I have been systematically reviewing the recommendations of the Commonwealth Fund’s Task Force On Payment and Delivery System Reform. There are six sections to the report. So far we have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 29, 2021 | ACA, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Build Back Better, Covid-19, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Pandemic Management, Polarization in America, Public Health, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
January 29, 2021 Dear Interested Readers The First Week of Building Back Better Reveals That We Have Much To Do From what I read in the papers, the president has been very busy cleaning up after the last occupant of the White House. Elizabeth...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 26, 2021 | ACA, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Doomscrolling, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, the filibuster, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
As noted in a recent post, the COVID-19 pandemic added some new words and phrases to our vocabulary in 2020. Some words were invented, but other words that we had rarely used or had used in a different context before the pandemic enjoyed a marked increase in...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 11, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Medicare For All, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, Universal Access, Waste in healthcare, Xavier Becerra
December 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Survive The Moment While Waiting For The Slow Evolution of Positive Change It has been a gruesome week in Lake Wobegon and across the land. It turns out that even in Lake Wobegon strange and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 17, 2020 | Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Joe Biden, Paul Krugman, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
If you are like me, you are wondering when the uncertainty over the election will end. I ask myself several times a day if there is really some path to a second Trump term. His supporters are in the streets proclaiming that they love him and repeating his claim...
