by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 13, 2018 | ACA, Healthcare as a Right, Presidential Politics, The Supreme Court and Healthcare
13 July 2018 Dear Interested Readers, So Far So Good, and a Request Last week the delivery process of this letter changed. The letter was also a little shorter, by design. I hope that you liked the new delivery process. Tuesday’s post was a totally new piece and not a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Politics, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics
6 July 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Welcome to The New “Healthcare Musings” Friday Letter! If you are reading these words you have made a transition! I talk alot about change. I know that whether I like it or not most things around me, and most...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 3, 2018 | Healthcare Transformation, Reform, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I envy guitar players. I wish that I was decent plucker of strings. I have been trying to make progress in this area for forty years. Two of my greatest disappointments in life are that I have never become proficient enough with any musical instrument to feel...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 5, 2018 | Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Health in America, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, metitocracy, Process Improvement, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
I saw aristocracy up close at Harvard Medical School. I quickly realized that some of my classmates were from families that were either power brokers in New York or Washington, or were the elite of American medicine. I discerned that I had been slotted into the class...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 15, 2018 | ACA, Healthcare Quality, Presidential Politics, Racial Inequality, Tax Reform and Healthcare, The Triple Aim
When I think about the Triple Aim Paul Simon’s song “Slip Slidin’ Away” feels like it has a special message for me. Near the end of the song he sings: Slip slidin’ away You know the nearer your destination The more you’re slip slidin’ away God...