by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Digitaal Health Access, Don Berwick, Dr.Anthony DiGioia, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, patient centered care, Patient Engagement, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Care Experience, The Triple Aim
February 19, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, An Anniversary It’s been exactly thirteen years since I wrote my first Friday letter to my colleagues, the staff of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. I had been the Interim CEO for a little over a week...
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 | Feb 12, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, ACA, ACO, Adaptive Change, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, capitation, Continuous Improvement, Dean Robert Ebert, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Process Improvement, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The 1619 Project, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, The President's Trial in The Senate, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
February 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Health System Accountability for Heath Care, Quality, Equity, and Cost It’s been a remarkable week in Washington. One of the benefits of retirement is that every day is Saturday. I have spent most of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 9, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, ACA, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Increase health care delivery systems’ preparedness for health disasters., Inequality in Healthcare, Public Health, Racial Inequality
By 6:30 on Sunday evening, I was filled to overflowing with Super Bowl hype. How many times can you hear the “G.O.A.T.” versus the “best of these times” line before you are ready to throw something at the television? The only recurrent line that has drawn more...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 5, 2021 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, ACA, American exceptionalism, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Black Lives Matter, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Economic inequality, Future of Heathcare, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, John McCain, political polarization, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare, Zoonosis
February 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Time To Start Again I am sure that I am not alone in my current strange mix of hope and residual fear. I am feeling much better now that Joe Biden is in the Oval office, but prior traumas are hard to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 2, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, Activism in Healthcare, anti-racism, Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Harvard Medical School, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The 1619 Project, The Triple Aim
In August 2019, long before we were challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic The New York Times Magazine published “The 1619 Project.” We live in a time where race and the impact of our history of slavery, the era of Jim Crow, and the continuing struggle for social...
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 | Jan 22, 2021 | Amanda Gordon, Build Back Better, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Empathy, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Racism in America, The Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, The Triple Aim
January 22, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, An Inspiring Call To Climb The Hill Of Our Unfinished Work If you read my post from Tuesday, you know that I was very excited about the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The demographics alone...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 19, 2021 | Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's Inauguration, Public Health, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Social Determinants of Health, The Attack on the Capitol, The centrality of the Constitution, The Triple Aim
I will be watching television most of the day tomorrow. The first inauguration that I remember watching was for President John Kennedy. The first televised inauguration was for Harry Truman in 1949. My family did not have a television until 1952 so I may have...
