by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 30, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, a pink ripple, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Build Back Better, Children in poverty, COVID uncertainty, Democracy on the Ballot, Economic inequality, Family Health Project, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Hearings of House Committee on January 6, Illiberalism, Inflation, Joe Knowles, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Roe v. Wade is overturned, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Trump's legacy court, Universal Basic Income
December 30, 2022 Dear Interested Reader, Looking Back, Looking Forward Janus, the two-faced Roman god, is the god of doorways and beginnings and endings. He also presides over the beginning and end of wars, making him the god of war and peace. Given...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 9, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, culture wars, Don Berwick, Dr. Eric Reinhardt, Dr. Paul Farmer, Empathy, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Illiberalism, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, political determinants of health, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health
December 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Political Determinants of Health The 2022 election season is over! At least we thought it was over before Kyrsten Sinema announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party to become an Independent. It does seem...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 18, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, 2024 elections, Biden's American Families Plan, Build Back Better, Children in poverty, Donald Trump's future, Family Health Project, Featured Post, Joe Knowles, Lynn Community Health Center, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Trump's lies, Universal Basic Income
November 18, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Family Health Project Update: Adding Evidence and Experience To The Wisdom of Universal Basic Income. Last week my wife and I were delighted to attend an event offered by the Family Health Project and its...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 7, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, Featured Post, Inflation, Social Determinants of Health
October 7, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Perilously Uncertain Times I am not a good fit for my septuagenarian demographic. I don’t watch Fox News. I do on rare occasions watch a football game on Fox, but even that’s getting rarer and rarer since I am...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 30, 2022 | ACA, Biden's American Families Plan, Block Island, Build Back Better, Children in poverty, CHIP, Dr. Ruby Payne, Economic inequality, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Social Determinants of Health, The potential fallibility of statistics, Universal Basic Income
September 30, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, The Data Says There Is Less Poverty, But Poverty Is Still A Huge Barrier To Health I was pleasantly surprised to hear recently that childhood poverty is down dramatically over the last twenty years. That was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 12, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, Children in poverty, Economic inequality, Effective altruism, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, Inflation, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, out of pocket healthcare costs, political polarization, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The sixth extinction, What we owe to future generations, Will MacAskill
August 12, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What Do We Owe The Future? Future people count. There could be a lot of them. We can make their lives better. That quote is part of Ezra Klein’s introduction to an interview with futurist Will MacAskill...
