by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 28, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Competition, Costs, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, healthcare finance, MACRA, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Public Option, The Triple Aim
28 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, The Democrats, Healthcare, and More: It’s Complicated For the past two nights we have had our first look at the twenty highest polling contenders for the nomination of the Democratic Party for president....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 7, 2019 | ACA, Atul Gawande, Congressional Budget Office, CVS Health Hubs, D Day, Haven Healthcare, Interoperability, MSSP
7 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers This and That Some weeks it is hard for me to decide what the topic of this letter should be. Longtime readers might remember when I would take on three of four different subjects in the same letter. At the time I was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 17, 2019 | Alabama's Abortion Law, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Featured Post, Poverty and healthcare, states' rights, The 2020 elections, the equal protection clause
17 May 2019 Dear Interested Readers, States’ Rights, Really? My wife enjoys scanning Facebook where there are many people with no reluctance to speak their mind on any issue under the sun. Over the last couple of days she has observed that there has been...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 10, 2019 | Featured Post, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Happiness, Joy, The Soul
10 May 2019 Dear Interested Readers, I Am Not Sure How Much More I Can Take In November 2017 the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published an opinion piece entitled, “How To Reduce Shootings.” He began the article by pointing out how different...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 7, 2019 | Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Opioid Epidemic, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, The Homeless
I took the picture that heads up this post on a walk this week in Albuquerque. I was there to visit my son and his wife. They moved to Albuquerque in 2007. For my daughter-in-law it was a return to her hometown. Both of her parents had been teachers in the Albuquerque...