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The President’s Prediction of the Explosion of the ACA

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 28, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Costs, Featured Post, Medicaid Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim

The announcement of the death of the AHAC and the president’s prediction of the “explosion” of the ACA broke in an unusual way. Robert Costa of the Washington Post got the word directly from the president and then tweeted that the AHAC was being...

A Time to Renew and Expand Our Sense of Professionalism

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 21, 2017 | AHCA, Burnout, Costs, Featured Post, Population Health Management, Repeal and Replace

Retirement is a time of reflection. Most of one’s agency lies in the past. I must organize opportunities to transfer bits of experience, insight and wisdom to those who still do the work if I am to have the joy of continuing to contribute to the dream of a future...

Understanding “Ryancare”, the AHCA

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 14, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, the healthcare debate

With Paul Ryan’s launch of his “repeal and replace” bill , which he calls the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and I prefer to call “Ryancare,” he initiated a new phase of the healthcare debate. Finally, we are seeing the focused discussion of the complex issues of...

Looking Underneath the President’s Comments About “Repeal and Replace”

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 7, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicaid Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace

As the “talking heads” who analyzed the President’s speech and Governor Beshear’s Democratic party response were fading into the 11 o’clock news, Verizon offered an advertisement that contained as much or more wisdom than anything that I had heard over the...

“Repeal and Replace”: Finally, Something From the Republican Leadership

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 28, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicaid Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, The Triple Aim

This last week Congress has been recessed for the Presidents’ Day holiday week. Paul Ryan accurately anticipated that many of Republican members of Congress would be having town meetings with their constituents and would face angry voters who wanted to talk down the...

Applying Lean Thinking to the Future of the ACA

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 21, 2017 | ACA, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate

Tom Price is now in place at his new office at HHS. One of Dr. Price’s first actions was to release a YouTube video that promises us a lot but does not say anything specific about what he plans to do. Seema Verma has been working her way toward Senate confirmation as...

It’s Still The Truth, Ten Years Later

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 14, 2017 | Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Improving the health of the poor, Population Health Management, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim

In the January 29th New England Journal of Medicine Foller, et. al. published an interesting article, “Population Health–A Bipartisan Agenda for the Incoming Administration from State Leaders.” The first paragraph said a lot. The common goal of health...

Good Strategy in a Fog of Uncertainty

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 7, 2017 | ACA, ACO, Burnout, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Medicaid Reform, Medicare Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, Resources, Strategy, The Triple Aim

There is no challenge like the challenge of creating a strategic plan in uncertain times. What do you do when you do not know what to do? That is a question that frequently challenges leaders. Over eight years ago, after Lehman Brothers had failed and the value of the...

An Amazing Interview and Display of Narcissism

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 31, 2017 | Featured Post

One of the most remarkable events of the first week of the Trump presidency was his interview with David Muir from ABC. Muir asked questions that allowed the President to reveal both his focus on the trivial and his lack of understanding of the subtleties of the...

Information for Responsible Resistance

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 24, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate

A few weeks ago those of us who had experienced a few moments of unfounded hope based on positive comments that President Trump had made about the ACA had our hopes dashed when he announced that Representative Dr. Tom Price of the 6th Congressional District of Georgia...