by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 23, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace
In August 2015 I gave a talk on the history of the evolution of health insurance that was part of a seminar entitled “Practicing in the Era of Healthcare Reform.” I concluded my talk with a slide labeled “Persistent Problems.” I recently reviewed the presentation and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 18, 2017 | ACO, AHCA, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Transformation, Lean, Quadruple Aim, the healthcare debate
In a recent essay Michael Dowling, the CEO of Northwell, the massive health system with 21 hospitals in metropolitan New York and Long Island, points out that the most frustrating aspect of the current healthcare debate is that “it is ideological and not practical.”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 4, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Quadruple Aim, The Triple Aim
The failure of the president and House Republicans to launch a credible process to “repeal and replace” the ACA creates a moment of opportunity for those who would like to contribute to the search for a better future state for healthcare. The challenge of providing...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 14, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, the healthcare debate
With Paul Ryan’s launch of his “repeal and replace” bill , which he calls the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and I prefer to call “Ryancare,” he initiated a new phase of the healthcare debate. Finally, we are seeing the focused discussion of the complex issues of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 7, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicaid Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace
As the “talking heads” who analyzed the President’s speech and Governor Beshear’s Democratic party response were fading into the 11 o’clock news, Verizon offered an advertisement that contained as much or more wisdom than anything that I had heard over the...