by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 30, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus, Emerging from the pandemic, Featured Post, House hearings on the January 6 attack on the Capital., Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Non Zero, Politics and Healthcare, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, The Attack on the Capitol, the filibuster, Universal Access
July 30, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Is “Normal” A Concept That Is Over? This summer has been a very strange season with some very violent weather. Some days feel eerily spooky with a dangerous heavy haze from the West Coast fires hanging over...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 2, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Equity, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Senator Joe Manchin, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, the filibuster, Trump's legacy court
July 2, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What’s Next? What Are The “Joes” Going to Do? I am flabbergasted. It is my opinion that yesterday (Thursday) was a horrible day for our democracy, and ultimately for healthcare. The Supreme Court dealt the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 25, 2021 | Children in poverty, Critical Race Theory, David Brooks, diseases of despair, Dr. Bruce Perry, Economic inequality, Equity, Erik Erikson, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Improving the health of the poor, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, trauma, What Happened To You?
June 25, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What Happened to You? Most Monday mornings since the COVID lockdown began I meet on Zoom with a few local friends to discuss a book that we have all been reading. We take on one or two chapters a week and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 28, 2021 | ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Economic inequality, Elizabeth Warren, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
May 28, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Hope Needs A Plan: Moving Upstream From Quality, Safety, and the Triple Aim About three paragraphs from the end of the main section of last Friday’s Healthcare Musings I wrote: Since we have not had the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 30, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Children in poverty, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, The Triple Aim
April 30, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Joe Hit It out of the Park And on the 99th day, the president returned some grace and wisdom to the office. When I lived in Waco, Texas my dad and I would play a game. He was the pastor of the First...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 27, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Activism in Healthcare, Children in poverty, Family Health Project, Featured Post, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty, Joe Knowles, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Jobs Act, The Stockton Experiment with UBI, Universal Basic Income
If you ask yourself what are the origins of healthcare disparities your answer would probably be poor access to healthcare, poor access to healthy food, poor education in underserved communities, low wages, inadequate housing, lack of job opportunities, and...