by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 25, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, Community Health Workers., Crossing the Quality Chasm, Emerging from the pandemic, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
March 25, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, To Live in Challenging Times My goal for this week’s letter was to shift back to writing more directly about healthcare. Despite my plans, I found it hard to completely ignore the Senate hearings on the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 4, 2022 | a personal testimony, COVID uncertainty, Dr. George Vaillant, Dr. Paul Batalden, E. Stanley Jones, Equity, Featured Post, Health in America, Inequality in Healthcare, Mark Twain's wisdom, Martin Luther King Jr, Medical Quality, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Triple Aim, VUCA, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 4, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Maintaining Perspective While Living with Uncertainty Most Monday mornings at 9 AM I click on a Zoom link and join a conversation with five of my friends. We are all “mostly retired.” One participant is a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 24, 2021 | Build Back Better, Children in poverty, Climate Crisis, COVID uncertainty, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Inequality, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Omicron variant, Paul Krugman, Poverty and healthcare, Ronald Reagan
December 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Warning: The first section of this letter is at times sarcastic. Its content ranges from overt hostility to whimsical fantasy that attempts to answer the question, “What’s the problem with Joe Manchin?” It fails...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 3, 2021 | Authoritarianism, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Democratic control of the House, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Equity, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Transformation, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Ibram X. Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, intersectionality, Per Scholas, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Wicked Problems
December 3, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, If There Are Four Americas, What Does That Mean For Healthcare? We all are aware of the deep bipartisan divide that stymies attempts to improve access to healthcare and lower its cost for all consumers. The same...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 26, 2021 | "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes, ACA, Continuous Improvement, Equity, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, healthcare disparities, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Practice Improvement, The Triple Aim
November 26, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thanksgivings For The Opportunities For Service In Troubled Times I hope that by now you have experienced a resolution of any Thanksgiving Day indigestion or mental distress that might have arisen from temporary...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 29, 2021 | Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, diseases of despair, Emerging from the pandemic, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Nicholas Kristof, Public Health, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, The de emphasis of public health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
October 29, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What COVID Has Revealed To Us I have seen several articles that attempt to tell us what COVID has revealed to us about the inequities and inadequacies in our system of care. My guess is that you have also...