by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 29, 2020 | ACA, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Education and The Pandemic, Featured Post, George Floyd, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
Never before have I been happier to see a year finally end. 2020 was a traumatic experience. For many years, the humorist Dave Barry has been writing a column at the end of the year that summarizes the past events of the year lest we forget them. This year’s...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 11, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Medicare For All, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, Universal Access, Waste in healthcare, Xavier Becerra
December 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Survive The Moment While Waiting For The Slow Evolution of Positive Change It has been a gruesome week in Lake Wobegon and across the land. It turns out that even in Lake Wobegon strange and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 1, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Future of Heathcare, gridlock, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Polarization in America, The 2020 election, The election of Joe Biden, the filibuster, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA
Joe Biden has won the presidency no matter what Donald Trump says or does, but the road ahead will be difficult for him and for all who were hoping that all the damage done to dreams of healthcare as a right for all who live in America, affordable universal...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 24, 2020 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Build Back Better, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Polarization in America, The 2020 election, The Public Option
This time three weeks ago many Americans were wearing masks while standing in lines with six feet of distance on either side from others in line while waiting patiently to cast their vote. Some stood for hours in lines designed to discourage them from...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 10, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Equity, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Polarization in America, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
Where were you at 11:30 AM last Saturday? I was sitting bleary eyed in front of my television watching John King and Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Outside the weather was glorious, and I knew that there were many “productive” things that I could be doing that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 6, 2020 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, diseases of despair, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Improving the health of the poor, Joe Biden, John McCain, Retrograde Mercury, Social Determinants of Health, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, the president's lies, The Triple Aim
November 6, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Observations During A Nail Biter That Will Determine The Future Of The Country And Healthcare I have been watching CNN or listening to NPR for most of the time since the polls closed on Tuesday evening....
