by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 26, 2021 | ACA, Atrium Health, Economic inequality, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, healthcare finance, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Joe Knowles, Medicare For All, out of pocket healthcare costs, Social Determinants of Health, Surprise Medical Bills, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare, Zeev Neuwirth
March 26, 2021 Dear Interested Reader, Have We Forgotten That The Cost of Care Is A Problem? I mention the Triple Aim in many of my posts. In my opinion, the best graphic that presents the concept was created by the Institute For Healthcare...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 23, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, a personal testimony, A Promised Land By Barack Obama, ACA, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Jonathan Haidt, Marcus Borg, Nicholas Kristof, Polarization in America, Racial Inequality, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, TARP, the filibuster, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
One of the most intriguing challenges of the Trump era for me has been to explain his ability to attract the vigorous and loyal support of the religious right and working-class White voters in red states. What has been a puzzling observation of many liberal and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 19, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Joe Knowles, Non Zero, Poverty and healthcare, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, The Canadian Experiment With UBI, The Stockton Experiment with UBI, Universal Basic Income
March 19, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, To Discuss The Social Determinants of Health Is To Discuss Poverty The Kaiser Family Foundation published a paper this week that detailed the impact on the social determinants of health of the 1.9 COVID...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 16, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Featured Post, Health and Human Services, Medicare For All, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, telehealth, The Public Option, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Xavier Bacerra, Xavier Becerra
Time flies. It has been almost two months since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were inaugurated. With each passing day, it becomes harder to imagine that we ever elected Donald Trump as prescient. My health has improved. I get more sleep. During the “Trump...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 12, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, 9/11, Children in poverty, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, significance of March 11, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The Triple Aim
March 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Happy For A Little Relief While Still Looking For An End Of Misery After One Strange Year Most of us remember in vivid detail where we were on 9/11/2001 when we first heard of the planes crashing into the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 9, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Children in poverty, Economic inequality, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Non Zero, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, The Canadian Experiment With UBI, The Stockton Experiment with UBI, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Universal Basic Income
The two big news events over the weekend were the Senate’s passage of the 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus bill by a vote of 50-49 and Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Megan and Harry. There may be more similarity in the two events than immediately meets the eye....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 5, 2021 | ACO, capitation, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, medical home, Primary Care, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
March 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, More Thoughts About The Importance of Primary Care Now that Donald Trump is off Twitter and mostly out of sight except for occasional appearances at places like CPAC, I find that I have more time to think...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 2, 2021 | Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Financial challenges of primary care., Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare Transformation, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Inequality, New England Journal of Medicine, patient centered care, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
The latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine was waiting for me in my mailbox yesterday when I dropped by the post office. I was delighted to see that it was the March 4th edition and I was happy to get it on time. The mail comes very irregularly...
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 23, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Administrative Waste, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Fee for service payment, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
That we have lost 500,000 souls to COVID-19 is hard to process. It really doesn’t help much to hear 500,000 dead Americans from the COVID pandemic is more lives lost than in our summed casualties of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the War in Vietnam. I...
