by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 17, 2021 | ACA, Continuous Improvement, Costs, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Global Warming, Health in America, Healthcare equity, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicare For All, out of pocket healthcare costs, Poverty and healthcare, Public Health, Public Option, Universal Access
September 17, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Why Is Universal Healthcare Coverage Such an Elusive Goal? This week’s New England Journal of Medicine has two thought-provoking articles in its “Perspectives” section. The first article is “State Public Option...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 26, 2021 | ACA, Atrium Health, Economic inequality, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, healthcare finance, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Joe Knowles, Medicare For All, out of pocket healthcare costs, Social Determinants of Health, Surprise Medical Bills, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare, Zeev Neuwirth
March 26, 2021 Dear Interested Reader, Have We Forgotten That The Cost of Care Is A Problem? I mention the Triple Aim in many of my posts. In my opinion, the best graphic that presents the concept was created by the Institute For Healthcare...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 11, 2020 | a personal testimony, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Opioid Epidemic, out of pocket healthcare costs, Poverty and healthcare, Remembering 9/11, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health
September 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Nineteen Years, And It Seems Like Yesterday You need to be in your mid eighties to remember anything about the Holocaust or World War II. If, like me, you are 75, you might remember the Korean War....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 21, 2020 | Costs, Democratic Presidential Debates, Employer Provided Health Insurance, healthcare finance, out of pocket healthcare costs, Stein's Law, Surprise Medical Bills
February 21, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Surprise Medical Bills, Another Price Some Must Pay To Have Choice? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal has a remarkable ability to explain complex issues. Her healthcare credentials are as impressive as her journalistic...
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 | Jul 30, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, out of pocket healthcare costs, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
You can be sure that tonight and tomorrow night I will be interested in the outcome of the Red Sox/Tampa Bay games, but I won’t be watching. My eyes and ears will be tuned to round two of the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates in Detroit. Since the last debate,...