by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 5, 2019 | ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs), capitation, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Hill-Burton, Hospital Utilization
The hospital in my little town was one hundred years old this last year. It was launched by three local physicians, Dr. Nathan Griffin, Dr. Charles Lamson and Dr. Anna Littlefield, in collaboration with women in the community. A local woman of some prominence, Jane...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 4, 2019 | Democratic control of the House, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
4 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, We Must Address Poverty and the Social Determinants of Health I have the opinion that most Americans do not understand or spend much time thinking about the term “social determinants of health”, or connect...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 28, 2018 | Access, ACO, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA, The Most Significant Healthcare Issues for 2018
28 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers “Zwischen den Jahren” Is a Good Time For Reflection We have a friend in Germany who lived with us as an au pair more than thirty years ago. She now has her own family and a successful public relations...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 18, 2018 | ACA, Featured Post, Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA, political polarization, pre existing conditions, Presidential Politics, the Mandate
Since the latest open enrollment period for the ACA ended on December 15, I thought that now would be a good time to review all of the administrative attacks that the Trump administration had made on this much maligned law. It amazes me that a law that has given so...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 4, 2018 | ACA, ACO, Bernie Sanders, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Medicare For All, Public Option
Last Wednesday my wife and I drove down to Boston so that she could do a little holiday shopping with a friend while I saw the nurse practitioner who was going to do my periodic health review and give me a flu shot. Somewhere between New London and Concord on...