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 25, 2020 | Atrius Health, Civility, Continuous Improvement, Don Berwick, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Empathy, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, food Insecurity, Hope, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, Surprise Medical Bills, The Triple Aim
December 25, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Peace, Hope, Love, Joy? Christmas has been on a Friday only twice since I began writing these notes back in February 2008. I decided to dust off “Volume I,” letters that were written between February 22,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 4, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, coronavirus, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Joe Biden and the Future, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
December 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Continuing to Look Forward From A Strange Moment In Time It is very hard to think about the future when you are mired in the realities of a week as disorienting as this past one. Can you believe that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 23, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Black Lives Matter, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Pandemic Management, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, pre existing conditions, Social Determinants of Health, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA
October 23, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Finally, The Debates Are Over. What Did We Learn About The Future of Healthcare? What Did We Learn About The Candidates That We Did Not Already Know? My expectations were low. What should your expectations be...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 16, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Presidential Politics, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA
October 16, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Holding My Breath With My Fingers Crossed There are less than three weeks until the election! It feels like this ordeal has been going on for four years, and I guess it has. The campaign for victory in...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 13, 2020 | Confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Presidential Politics, Public Option, Retrograde Mercury
I lifted the phrase, “…the world continues to vex good people everywhere,” from the notes associated with the song my son put on the Internet yesterday. Those eight words spoke to me, and described my feeling that we are being swept toward an uncertain,...
