by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 7, 2018 | Benefits of the ACA, Brett Kavanaugh, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim
7 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Countering Despair, Maybe “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. That’s Stein’s Law. Herbert Stein was a bright man. He was a conservative economist, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 24, 2018 | Future of Heathcare, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
24 August 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Reader Alert! This week’s letter lives up to the title of “Healthcare Musings.” Perhaps it should be entitled “Political Musings in Search of a Connection to Healthcare.” I have excuses for the “peripatetic” nature of this...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 31, 2018 | FQHCs, Healthcare Policy, Improving the health of the poor, Life Expectancy, Population Health Management, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
Recent circumstances have moved me to take a closer look at the importance of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and their important role in the immediate future of the evolution of better care for the underserved populations of our nation. I have the bias that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 5, 2018 | Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Health in America, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, metitocracy, Process Improvement, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
I saw aristocracy up close at Harvard Medical School. I quickly realized that some of my classmates were from families that were either power brokers in New York or Washington, or were the elite of American medicine. I discerned that I had been slotted into the class...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 22, 2018 | Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, History of Healthcare Reform, Innovation in Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
When my own wellspring of inspiration and self proclaimed insight seems to be temporarily running dry, I compensate by passing on to readers what I am learning from others. There has been a lot to learn from others and to pass on recently. I was particularly intrigued...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 17, 2018 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Mindset, Moral Minds, Social Determinants of Health, the healthcare debate
Someday the presidency of Donald Trump will be a subject for historians. Whatever historians say, I am sure that they will begin the story long before we thought of Trump’s bid for the presidency as anything more than a joke. The story will not begin with a review of...