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Healthcare Musings For 8 November 2019

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 8, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Healthcare as a Right, History of Healthcare Reform, Jill Lepore, Medicare For All, states' rights, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

8 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Why Medicare for All Is The Best Choice, But An Unlikely Outcome No Matter Who Wins I know that I am writing to sophisticated readers. Much of what follows may be boringly redundant or a statement of the...

Don Berwick to the Rescue (of Elizabeth Warren)

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 5, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Don Berwick, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Era 3: the moral era, healthcare finance, Medicare For All, The Triple Aim

These days, if you are disconnected from the world for just twenty four hours, you miss a lot. At 5:45 AM last Friday, my wife and I got up at a friend’s home in Needham to go to the airport in time to board a flight at 8:25 AM in Boston that was headed...

Healthcare Musings For 1 November 2019

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 1, 2019 | Amazon, Atul Gawande, CVS Health Hubs, Disruptive Innovation, Haven Healthcare, Primary Care, Walgreens, Walmart

1 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What’s Up at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, and Amazon? I was ten years old in 1955 when Volkswagen began marketing its cute “bugs” in America. It was probably the summer of 1956 before I saw my first “VW Beetle.” It...

Pondering What the Future Might Hold: Part II

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 29, 2019 | Augmented Intelligence, Future of Heathcare, Illiberalism, Inequality, Liberal Values, The Triple Aim, Zanny Minton Beddoes

One of the things that my wife and I have enjoyed in retirement is our subscription to the Lesley University/WGBH Boston Symphony Hall Speaker Series. Once a month through the fall and winter we enjoy a great evening in Boston. We go to dinner with friends...

Healthcare Musings For 25 October 2019

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 25, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, ACO, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MassHealth, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement

25 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Pondering What the Future Might Hold My last letter to my colleagues at Atrius Health was published on October 25, 2013. In that letter I reviewed what I thought some of the challenges of the future would...

The Challenge Is Still To Deliver on “These Truths”

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 22, 2019 | David Brooks, Economic inequality, Frederick Douglass, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, Martin Luther King Jr, states' rights, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

I was quite gratified that in his recent sixteen hour panorama of Country Music, Ken Burns spent a disproportionate amount of time in episode six on Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson has always been a favorite of mine. He was an exceptional athlete at Pomona...

Healthcare Musings For 18 October 2018

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 18, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Costs, Lean, Medicare For All, President Trump, Public Option, Waste in healthcare

18 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Morality, Trump, Democratic Debates, and More Thoughts on the Cost of Care I had some sort of awakening in the late eighties and started reading more nonfiction. History, theology, and business related...

Let’s Think About Our Waste As An Opportunity And As A Responsibility

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 15, 2019 | Administrative Waste, Atrius Health, Costs, Don Berwick, Lean, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare

This posting is brought to you thanks to a note I received on Sunday from a loyal “Interested Reader.” Hi Gene, I thought of you upon reading this clearly-written article in the NYTimes this morning: I hope all is well and that you are enjoying...

Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 11, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Administrative Burden, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement

11 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Where Would You Start? When I listen to politicians talk, at least the ones running for president, the health care problems they are interested in solving are mostly limited to how we achieve universal access and...

Fifty Years of Care Improvement

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 8, 2019 | Atrius Health, Colleagues, Continuous Improvement, Dean Robert Ebert, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Innovation in Healthcare

On October 1, 1969, against substantial opposition from many of the faculty members at Harvard Medical School and others in the Boston medical community, Dr. Robert Ebert succeeded in launching the Harvard Community Health Plan. Forty years later, in 2009, several of...