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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 28, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicaid Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, The Triple Aim
This last week Congress has been recessed for the Presidents’ Day holiday week. Paul Ryan accurately anticipated that many of Republican members of Congress would be having town meetings with their constituents and would face angry voters who wanted to talk down the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 21, 2017 | ACA, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate
Tom Price is now in place at his new office at HHS. One of Dr. Price’s first actions was to release a YouTube video that promises us a lot but does not say anything specific about what he plans to do. Seema Verma has been working her way toward Senate confirmation as...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 7, 2017 | ACA, ACO, Burnout, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Medicaid Reform, Medicare Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, Resources, Strategy, The Triple Aim
There is no challenge like the challenge of creating a strategic plan in uncertain times. What do you do when you do not know what to do? That is a question that frequently challenges leaders. Over eight years ago, after Lehman Brothers had failed and the value of the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 24, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate
A few weeks ago those of us who had experienced a few moments of unfounded hope based on positive comments that President Trump had made about the ACA had our hopes dashed when he announced that Representative Dr. Tom Price of the 6th Congressional District of Georgia...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 17, 2017 | ACA, Costs, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Repeal and Replace, Strategy, the healthcare debate
Readers of these postings are familiar with my use of the term VUCA, an acronym that is derived from the realization that we live in a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. I have asserted before that our state of uncertainty about the future of...