by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 12, 2017 | Benefits of the ACA, Competition, Costs, History of Healthcare Reform, Population Health Management, Presidential Politics, The Triple Aim
What will be left when the storm is over? It’s the sort of question you might have asked yourself if you were living in Puerto Rico on September 20 when Maria hit. I ask it of myself on a regular basis when I think of Donald Trump’s attack on healthcare, the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 24, 2017 | ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, History of Healthcare Reform, Politics, Presidential Politics, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
Congressional Republicans and the president can’t seem to coordinate their activities to “repeal and replace” the ACA, or get much of anything done. Their inability to deliver on their promise to give the public something better than the ACA is a surprise, since they...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 22, 2017 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Competition, History of Healthcare Reform, Innovation, System Consolidation, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim
Are systems consolidation, competition and innovation the triple play that will deliver quality care for everyone at a sustainable cost? Perhaps before we try to answer that question we should avail ourselves of the lessons learned over the efforts of the last fifty...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 15, 2017 | ACO, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, hyperpartisanship, the healthcare debate, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim
Last week when I copied and pasted the conclusions in the JAMA article by President Obama I discovered that Google Drive did not know the word “hyperpartisanship.” . Did Google’s ignorance of hyperparisanship suggest that we are experiencing something new?...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 8, 2017 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Transformation, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim
I was delightfully dazed and confused the morning after Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain launched us into the next phase of the healthcare debate by giving the ACA a last minute reprieve. In a mix of ecstasy and disbelief I watched the video of John...