by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 4, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Quadruple Aim, The Triple Aim
The failure of the president and House Republicans to launch a credible process to “repeal and replace” the ACA creates a moment of opportunity for those who would like to contribute to the search for a better future state for healthcare. The challenge of providing...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 28, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Costs, Featured Post, Medicaid Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
The announcement of the death of the AHAC and the president’s prediction of the “explosion” of the ACA broke in an unusual way. Robert Costa of the Washington Post got the word directly from the president and then tweeted that the AHAC was being...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 14, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, the healthcare debate
With Paul Ryan’s launch of his “repeal and replace” bill , which he calls the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and I prefer to call “Ryancare,” he initiated a new phase of the healthcare debate. Finally, we are seeing the focused discussion of the complex issues of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 7, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicaid Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace
As the “talking heads” who analyzed the President’s speech and Governor Beshear’s Democratic party response were fading into the 11 o’clock news, Verizon offered an advertisement that contained as much or more wisdom than anything that I had heard over the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 28, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicaid Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, The Triple Aim
This last week Congress has been recessed for the Presidents’ Day holiday week. Paul Ryan accurately anticipated that many of Republican members of Congress would be having town meetings with their constituents and would face angry voters who wanted to talk down the...