by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 5, 2015 | Featured Post, News, Payment Models
Medicare and Medicaid are now fifty years old. I suspect they are the two programs that much of the healthcare establishment still loves to hate the most. Lyndon Johnson’s signing on July 30, 1965 of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, created two landmark...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 26, 2015 | Featured Post, News, Payment Models, Reform, The Triple Aim
Thanks to the Supreme Court, healthcare reform has cleared another hurdle. At 10:21 AM yesterday, as I was writing this week’s letter a banner appeared on my screen: NPR:Breaking News–Supreme Court Rules Obamacare Subsidies Are Legal Just seven words but...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 21, 2015 | Featured Post, Leadership, News, Payment Models, Reform
Last month we passed a big milestone: the fifth anniversary of the ACA (Affordable Care Act). Barack Obama used 22 pens on March 23, 2010 to sign the most important piece of social legislation so far in this young century. If you have about seven minutes, you can hear...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 13, 2015 | Delivery, Featured Post, Leadership, Process Improvement, Reform, Strategy, The Triple Aim
The other night I watched 60 Minutes and heard Steven Brill and Leslie Stahl report on how Obamacare is doing at this point. There was an air of naiveté and associated helplessness or a sense of victimization by “systemic evil” that was at the core of this segment,...