by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 18, 2018 | ACA, Featured Post, Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA, political polarization, pre existing conditions, Presidential Politics, the Mandate
Since the latest open enrollment period for the ACA ended on December 15, I thought that now would be a good time to review all of the administrative attacks that the Trump administration had made on this much maligned law. It amazes me that a law that has given so...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 14, 2018 | "Wicked Problems" in Healthcare, Costs, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Social Determinants of Health, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Sustainability, The Triple Aim
14 December 2014 Dear Interested Readers, Sustainability, a Foundational Concern for Healthcare Late Wednesday afternoon I decided to take a walk, since the hike in the woods that I took with a friend earlier in the day had been more about...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 11, 2018 | "Wicked Problems" in Healthcare, burnout and professional fulfillment, Physician/Management "Compacts"
For several years after I moved into administration I was a regular attendee of the twice yearly meetings of the Group Practice Improvement Network. GPIN’s description of itself is straight forward: GPIN is a nonprofit organization created in 1993 by the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 7, 2018 | America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, burnout and professional fulfillment, George H. W. Bush, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Medicaid work requirements, rural healthcare
7 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri of Feelings and Observations Some weeks it is beyond my ability to finally decide on one subject for these notes. It occurs to me that most weeks this letter to you does not live up to its billing as “musings;”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 4, 2018 | ACA, ACO, Bernie Sanders, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Public Option
Last Wednesday my wife and I drove down to Boston so that she could do a little holiday shopping with a friend while I saw the nurse practitioner who was going to do my periodic health review and give me a flu shot. Somewhere between New London and Concord on...