by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 3, 2017 | Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Lean, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Repeal and Replace
Are you wondering what you and your practice or hospital should be doing while living in the ambiguity of “repeal and replace?” Focus on getting better. That is the short answer. With or without the ACA the challenge to create Care better than we’ve seen, health...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 13, 2016 | ACA, Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Population Health Management, Sustainability, The Triple Aim
Since the early nineties nothing has challenged physicians grounded in the traditional culture and practice of medicine more than the introduction of the “radical” concept of population health. One could argue that the Affordable Care Act is the legislative expression...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 22, 2016 | ACA, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace
Where Does The Real Controversy Lie? The Democratic position on healthcare and the philosophy expressed in Paul Ryan’s “A Better Way” and the brief paper that the Trump campaign had on their website agree on more than you might expect. Both sides focus on the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 15, 2016 | ACA, Costs, Featured Post, Mindset, Politics, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
The election outcome should not have been a surprise. We should have recognized the uncertainty produced by anger and deep divisions on many issues. The “establishment” Republican party seemed to be in shambles. The Democratic party did not recognize that it had lost...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 28, 2016 | Costs, Featured Post, Nonprofit, Resources
When I joined the Harvard Community Health Plan board in1990, the Chairman was a very wise and experienced executive from Federated Department Stores, Maurice Lazarus. “Moogie” as he preferred to be called, projected a throwback image to another day when wise and...