by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ARPA, Boston Medical Center, CARES Act, Collective Action Problems, COVID stress on hospital resources, Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, David Blumenthal, diseases of despair, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Guthrie Health, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Medicare For All, out of pocket healthcare costs, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
July 1, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Does Healthcare Improvement Still Have A Chance To Get Any Attention? It seems like a long time since I have heard or read much about Medicare For All or any other proposal to expand coverage to the ten percent of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 29, 2022 | Crossing the Quality Chasm, Enlightenment Now, Evidence Based Medicine, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, Inequality in Healthcare, Liberal Values, modernism, political polarization, postmodernism, Progressive Values, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, The Triple Aim, VUCA
April 29, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Is Healthcare Enlightened Now or Suffering From Postmodern Cynicism and Burnout? About five years ago, I was delighted to get the good news from Stephen Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 22, 2022 | A story from my life, American exceptionalism, Azovstal steel factory, Bret Stephens, Conservative Values, Contoocook Carry Community Fund, COVID, Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Marine LePen, Mariupol, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Remember the Alamo, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
April 22, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Remember the Alamo! Remember Azvostal! Remember The Triple Aim! I became an enthusiastic student of history in the seventh grade. By the eighth grade, I received the DAR medal for being the best student in American...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 15, 2022 | ACA, COVID, disinformation, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare equity, Omicron variant, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, pysanky, Richard Rohr, The Triple Aim, Volodymyr Yermolenko.
April 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Easter In Ukraine and Loosely Connected Musings About “Disorder” and “Reorder” in Healthcare As is true for many others, the continuing war in Ukraine has stimulated my fascination with the bravery and willingness...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 1, 2022 | April Fool's Day, Atul Gawande, Bret Stephens, chronic disease management, Consolidation in healthcare, Costs, COVID, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Inflation, Innovation, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, patient centered care, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, The Care Experience, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
April 1, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Are We All April’s Fools? I made an interesting discovery on the Internet. According to Wikipedia, Odessa, the resort city of Ukraine on the Black Sea, is the only city in the world where April 1 is an official...
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...