by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 11, 2024 | a woman's right to make reproductive health choices, Abortion, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Donald Trump, election scenarios, Featured Post, Global Warming, Healthcare Policy, Incremental healthcare improvement, Kamala Harris, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, The 2024 Presidential Election, The Triple Aim, transformational change
October 11, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Incrementalism Has Replaced Transformation As A Strategy To Improve Healthcare If you are a regular reader of these Friday letters, you know that I have bemoaned the fact that unlike 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 27, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Benefits of the ACA, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Retrograde Mercury, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The threat to women's reproductive rights
In one week the retrograde Mercury will be over, Election Day will be behind us, and we will enter the next phase of uncertainty in the process of electing the president. The retrograde has been tough on me these last few weeks. There have been several...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 27, 2019 | ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Big Five Tech Companies Invade Healthcare, Costs, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Medicare For All, Strategy Formation, The 2020 elections, The Public Option, Universal Access
27 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back At 2019 As We Think About 2020 I am a maker of New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of year again. Looking back on 2019 I did a pretty good job. I had some partial successes, and some of my...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 13, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Bernie Sanders, Population Health, Public Option, Robert Mueller's Testimony, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
13 September 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Looking For Answers While Hoping A Leader Might Emerge From A Raucous Conversation. I made the mistake of waiting until I had witnessed the third Democratic debate last night before writing this letter to you. I...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 9, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Congressional Budget Office, Consolidation in healthcare, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, out of pocket healthcare costs, pre existing conditions, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
9 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Focusing the Conversation in Order to Make Progress Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, former congressman, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, and later two term mayor of Chicago. Dr. Emanuel was a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 2, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Costs, Elizabeth Warren, Future of Heathcare, Kamala Harris, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, The Triple Aim
2 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What Have We Learned So Far From Listening To The Democratic Debates? This last week we entertained some old friends from Massachusetts. We were neighbors. We attended the same church. We share many fond...