by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 28, 2020 | ACA, coronavirus, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Nursing Shortages, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Stock Market, The 2020 elections, VUCA
February 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Unexpected Events And Uncertainty in a VUCA World It has happened again. This last week was one where events seemed to suddenly converge on us to remind us of an important reality, change is a constant in...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 14, 2020 | ACA, Charity, compassion fatigue, Equity, Featured Post, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access
February 14, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Charity, Empathy, and Equity, How Are They Related? Before launching into the main thoughts of this letter, let me clarify some of my sharp comments about Florida. One of my family members, a Floridian,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 11, 2020 | ACA, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Florida Memories, Impeachment of Donald Trump, Inequality, Primary Day in New Hampshire, The Triple Aim
My wife and I have been traveling since last Thursday. We are in Florida, but my eye has been on the weather and the presidential primary in New Hampshire. We left in a snowstorm that I am told evolved into a traffic paralyzing ice storm, followed by more snow,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 7, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Featured Post, Impeachment Hearings, Medicare For All, political polarization, Politics, pre existing conditions, President Trump, Social Determinants of Health, The President's Trial in The Senate, The Triple Aim
7 February 2020 Dear Interested Readers, What’s Next? The Valley News, my local newspaper, serves me in two ways, if it is delivered. Delivery has been erratic over the last six months since the delivery man, “Sonnie,” got mad at someone in...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 10, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Conservative Values, Costs, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Jonathan Haidt, Liberal Values, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, political polarization, Universal Access
10 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Do We Need To Better Understanding How Our Values Vary Before We Can Reform Healthcare? I am always excited when I see an interesting article in the “Perspective Section” of the New England Journal of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 31, 2019 | ACA, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Global Warming, Healthcare challenges for the "Twenties', healthcare finance, Healthcare Transformation, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
I am so glad that it is going to be the 20s tomorrow. Bye-bye to a so-so decade. This New Year should be very interesting. There should be events that occur this year that will have a long term significance in our collective experience. I always embrace the New...