by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 26, 2017 | Health in America, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty, Social Determinants of Health, Tax Reform and Healthcare, The Triple Aim
On Christmas morning as I was enjoying opening presents with my family, it occurred to me that President Trump’s suggestion that the tax bill was a big Christmas present for Americans must be very painful for the poor to hear. This bill puts much of their “safety net”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 12, 2017 | Benefits of the ACA, Competition, Costs, History of Healthcare Reform, Population Health Management, Presidential Politics, The Triple Aim
What will be left when the storm is over? It’s the sort of question you might have asked yourself if you were living in Puerto Rico on September 20 when Maria hit. I ask it of myself on a regular basis when I think of Donald Trump’s attack on healthcare, the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 5, 2017 | Economic inequality, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Racial Inequality, The Triple Aim
In the November 17th “Healthcare Musings” letter the second paragraph was biographical. I first began to worry about race as a small child. My family was progressive on issues of race in comparison to other families in the South between the late forties and mid...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 28, 2017 | Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Leadership, Strategy, The Triple Aim
I have been wanting to write about leadership skills for sometime. Leadership development is a personal growth process that never ends. The leadership learning curve did not begin until many years into my professional life. I followed a long and nontraditional path...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 31, 2017 | Featured Post, Health in America, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Process Improvement, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
Dr. Patty Gabow, the retired CEO of Denver Health has recently been making a presentation that begins with a rhetorical question, “Can the American Healthcare System Deliver Health?” Any rhetorical question is designed more to get the audience thinking than to...