by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 28, 2018 | Brett Kavanaugh, Era 3: the moral era, Future of Heathcare, Presidential Politics, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim
28 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, This Week’s News Makes Me Think of Berwick’s Era Three in Medicine It has been an unusual week in the news. One advantage of being retired is that you can listen in real time to some pretty bizarre things...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 7, 2018 | Benefits of the ACA, Brett Kavanaugh, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim
7 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Countering Despair, Maybe “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. That’s Stein’s Law. Herbert Stein was a bright man. He was a conservative economist, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 4, 2018 | ACA, Brett Kavanaugh, Future of Heathcare, pre existing conditions, Presidential Politics, The Supreme Court and Healthcare
The Senate Judiciary committee begins its pro forma hearings this week in the confirmation process of Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. After Kavanaugh joins the court there will be a solid conservative majority. For at least the next...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 24, 2018 | Future of Heathcare, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
24 August 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Reader Alert! This week’s letter lives up to the title of “Healthcare Musings.” Perhaps it should be entitled “Political Musings in Search of a Connection to Healthcare.” I have excuses for the “peripatetic” nature of this...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 31, 2018 | FQHCs, Healthcare Policy, Improving the health of the poor, Life Expectancy, Population Health Management, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
Recent circumstances have moved me to take a closer look at the importance of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and their important role in the immediate future of the evolution of better care for the underserved populations of our nation. I have the bias that...