by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 27, 2023 | 2022 midterm elections, 2024 elections, ACA, Consolidation in healthcare, COVID, Dartmouth Health, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare in Rural America, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, patient centered care, Social Determinants of Health, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Value Based Reimbursement
January 27, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Financial Troubles, Workforce Concerns, Access Issues, and Concerns For Quality of Care One of my biggest post-pandemic surprises is that healthcare has moved down, not up, on the cascade of concerns that worry...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 6, 2023 | 2022 midterm elections, COVID, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, patient centered care, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Selection of the Speaker of the House, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare
January 6, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts About the New Year Last week I advertised that I was going to review 2022 and then look forward to 2023. It is easy to talk about “what has been” and much more difficult to anticipate “what will be.” At...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 30, 2022 | ACA, Biden's American Families Plan, Block Island, Build Back Better, Children in poverty, CHIP, Dr. Ruby Payne, Economic inequality, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Social Determinants of Health, The potential fallibility of statistics, Universal Basic Income
September 30, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, The Data Says There Is Less Poverty, But Poverty Is Still A Huge Barrier To Health I was pleasantly surprised to hear recently that childhood poverty is down dramatically over the last twenty years. That was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 9, 2022 | A story from my life, ACO, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare equity, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Pioneer ACO, Queen Elizabeth, REACH ACO, System Consolidation, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About ACO Disappointments This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,” about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 2, 2022 | "Wicked Problems" in Healthcare, 2022 midterm elections, ACA, ACO, COVID, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Governor Abbott, Governor Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden and the Future, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Politics and Healthcare, Public Health, Ronald Reagan, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The Triple Aim
September 2, 2022 Dear Interested Readers. Where Is The Quality of Healthcare On Our List Of Concerns? It does not take long for the hot topics of the day to change. It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats were debating “Medicare for All” versus “Medicare...
