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 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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 23, 2018 | ACA, Future of Heathcare, hospital closings in rural America, rural healthcare, Staffing issues in rural healthcare
23 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, A Birthday of Sorts On November 22, 2013 I resumed writing my weekly letter after a three week hiatus. As November had begun I was in the process of transitioning into retirement. The interim management team did not...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 16, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, Burnout, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Inequality, patient centered care, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim
16 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Things To Ponder I have recently finished reading Jill Lapore’s These Truths: a History of the United States. Lepore finishes the book with a forward looking question: Barack Obama had urged...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, Featured Post, Health in America, Presidential Politics, the healthcare debate, The Supreme Court and Healthcare
9 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers Where From Here? I finished the Strategy Healthcare post for November 6, Election Day, with the following statement: I am hopeful, not optimistic, that this election will initiate a set of events that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 30, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, Presidential Politics, Senator Jeff Merkley, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
With the growing concerns about the need for change and the approaching election, last Sunday afternoon my wife and I volunteered to go door to door for our local Democratic Party in a “get out the vote” effort. We do not want to wake up in two weeks on November 7...