by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 12, 2025 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, ACOs, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Zack Cooper
December 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, I Am Trying to Develop a Little Hope Now and then, I get an unexpected email response to one of these letters. This week, I got one of those surprises in an email from a longtime reader. He wrote: Have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 26, 2024 | 2024 elections, A personal history, Atrius Health, diseases of despair, Dr. Gary Kaplan, Dr. John Toussaint, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Dr. Patty Gabow, Global Warming, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, LEAD, Lean, microsystems, New Hampshire Presidential Primary, Nicholas Kristof, Simpler, Six Sigma, Strategy, The Commonwealth Fund, The LEAD project of Blue Cross, The Triple Aim, TQM, Zeev Neuwirth
January 26, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Some Recent Articles of Interest Finally, the New Hampshire Presidential Primary is over. I am relieved. Perhaps through the rest of the winter, as well as spring and summer, we will be free from the robocalls...
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 | May 12, 2020 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, Covid-19, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19
As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 21, 2020 | Atul Gawande, C-19, chronic disease management, coronavirus, Covid-19, diseases of despair, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Pandemic Management, the difficulties of change, The World After COVID-19
Perhaps the most satisfying part of writing is hearing from you. This week I was delighted to hear from two people for whom I have great respect and some past history. One letter was a discussion of what faces us now; how and when to move toward more normal...
