by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 6, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
Dr. Patty Gabow shared a letter with me that she is sending to Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. I think several of her points deserve extra emphasis and I have bolded them. Dear Senator Alexander,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 25, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Payment Models, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
After the failure of Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act to get passed over the internal squabbling of House Republicans despite their forty four vote majority, David Brooks wrote an interesting tongue in cheek column entitled “The Coming Incompetence Crisis.” He...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 18, 2017 | ACO, AHCA, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Transformation, Lean, Quadruple Aim, the healthcare debate
In a recent essay Michael Dowling, the CEO of Northwell, the massive health system with 21 hospitals in metropolitan New York and Long Island, points out that the most frustrating aspect of the current healthcare debate is that “it is ideological and not practical.”...
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...