by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 24, 2023 | A personal history, Cass Sunstein, Dr. Marc Bard, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Healthcare Mergers, Illiberalism, Liberal Values, Liberalism, Medical Professionalism, Moral Injury, Physician Council of HCHP, RVUs, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
November 24, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Some Thoughts Before Continuing My Story I began the slow crawl through the memories from my professional life in the letter that I wrote to you on July 21. Eighteen weeks later I am only up to 1995, and I am...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 20, 2022 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Authoritarianism, COVID, Critical Race Theory, Don Berwick, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Liberal Values, Making America Great Again, Martin Luther King Jr, Mass Shooting in Buffalo, Polarization in America, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Replacement Theory
May 20, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, IIliberalism And The Future Of Healthcare It is easy to get lost in the despair of the moment. My newspapers and TV commentators tell me more than I want to know about mass shootings in Buffalo and Southern...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 29, 2022 | Crossing the Quality Chasm, Enlightenment Now, Evidence Based Medicine, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, Inequality in Healthcare, Liberal Values, modernism, political polarization, postmodernism, Progressive Values, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, The Triple Aim, VUCA
April 29, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Is Healthcare Enlightened Now or Suffering From Postmodern Cynicism and Burnout? About five years ago, I was delighted to get the good news from Stephen Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 14, 2020 | ACA, Build Back Better, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Economic inequality, Education and The Pandemic, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Liberal Values, Medicare For All, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Public Option, The Triple Aim
August 14, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Next 81 Days Of The Campaign For Better Health Yesterday morning I was up early, about 8AM. My Florida family was trying to get away early on their trip back to Miami. I was not enthusiastic about them...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 18, 2020 | Amitai Etzioni, Communitarianism, Conservative Values, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Liberal Values, Polarization in America, Progressive Values, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
More often than I like to admit, I am surprised and embarrassed by my lack of familiarity with something that is news to me that has been general knowledge for others for some time. It happened again this week. I had never heard of communitarianism or Amitai...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 10, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Conservative Values, Costs, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Jonathan Haidt, Liberal Values, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, political polarization, Universal Access
10 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Do We Need To Better Understanding How Our Values Vary Before We Can Reform Healthcare? I am always excited when I see an interesting article in the “Perspective Section” of the New England Journal of...
