by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 18, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, Empathy, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy Formation, Susan Rice, The Triple Aim
December 18, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, More Musing About What’s Next Last night I had the unique opportunity to hear Susan Rice speak at a virtual presentation of the Boston Speakers Series. She has an impressive resume and a very interesting...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 15, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hands Across the Hills, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I don’t really remember when I first met Don Berwick. He joined Harvard Community Health Plan in the late seventies as a pediatrician. I began my career there a few years earlier in 1975 right out of my training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before it...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 8, 2020 | Advent and Christmas, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Future of Heathcare, Joe Biden, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
Let me offer you an introductory warning and a rationalization. I have to admit that I can’t overcome my compulsion to write about what is on my mind. That lack of self control then forces me to hope that I can twist my obsession of the moment into something...
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 27, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Black Lives Matter, burnout and professional fulfillment, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Dean Robert Ebert, diseases of despair, Don Berwick, Empathy, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Six Domains of Quality, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
November 27, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Where Do We Begin The Work? During this last week I have been listening to Barack Obama read his book, A Promise Land, on my afternoon walks. It has been an incredible experience. I am delighted that the...
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...
