by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 16, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Dr. Robert Ebert, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Innovation in Healthcare, medical home, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the centrality of Primary Care, the filibuster, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
If you have avoided these notes for the past few weeks, you may not know that I have been systematically reviewing the recommendations of the Commonwealth Fund’s Task Force On Payment and Delivery System Reform. There are six sections to the report. So far we have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 29, 2020 | ACA, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Education and The Pandemic, Featured Post, George Floyd, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
Never before have I been happier to see a year finally end. 2020 was a traumatic experience. For many years, the humorist Dave Barry has been writing a column at the end of the year that summarizes the past events of the year lest we forget them. This year’s...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 25, 2020 | Atrius Health, Civility, Continuous Improvement, Don Berwick, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Empathy, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, food Insecurity, Hope, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, Surprise Medical Bills, The Triple Aim
December 25, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Peace, Hope, Love, Joy? Christmas has been on a Friday only twice since I began writing these notes back in February 2008. I decided to dust off “Volume I,” letters that were written between February 22,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 18, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, Empathy, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy Formation, Susan Rice, The Triple Aim
December 18, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, More Musing About What’s Next Last night I had the unique opportunity to hear Susan Rice speak at a virtual presentation of the Boston Speakers Series. She has an impressive resume and a very interesting...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 4, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, coronavirus, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Joe Biden and the Future, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
December 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Continuing to Look Forward From A Strange Moment In Time It is very hard to think about the future when you are mired in the realities of a week as disorienting as this past one. Can you believe that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 23, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Black Lives Matter, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Pandemic Management, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, pre existing conditions, Social Determinants of Health, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA
October 23, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Finally, The Debates Are Over. What Did We Learn About The Future of Healthcare? What Did We Learn About The Candidates That We Did Not Already Know? My expectations were low. What should your expectations be...
