by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 17, 2021 | Collective Action Problems, COVID, COVID in New Hampshire, David Brooks, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Quality, Hope, Inequality, Leon Kass, Non Zero, Polarization in America, Poverty, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, The Triple Aim, Vaccine hesitancy
December 17, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Collective Action Problems. Healthcare Is Definitely On The List Recently, the weather has been warmer, and I have enjoyed returning to my old routine of walking daily. I don’t know how long it will be possible....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 3, 2021 | Authoritarianism, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Democratic control of the House, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Equity, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Transformation, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Ibram X. Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, intersectionality, Per Scholas, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Wicked Problems
December 3, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, If There Are Four Americas, What Does That Mean For Healthcare? We all are aware of the deep bipartisan divide that stymies attempts to improve access to healthcare and lower its cost for all consumers. The same...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 5, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Ageism, Biases, COVID, Critical Race Theory, culture wars, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, healthcare disparities, Joe Biden, Maid by Stephanie Land, Opioid Epidemic, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Progressive Values, Racism in America, Ray Suarez, Social Determinants of Health, Virginia race for governor
November 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Have You Ever Been Broke? The newspapers are pointing out what a difference a year makes. According to the speculations in an article by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns published in the New York Times on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 1, 2021 | ACA, antiracism, Arlie Russell Hochschild, culture wars, diseases of despair, Dr. Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Ibram X.Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Polarization in America, Public Health, racist policy v. racism, Social Determinants of Health, the filibuster, The Triple Aim, Thomas Frank, Universal Access
October 1, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Why Do We Make Choices That Don’t Promote Our Wellbeing? The news is full of the manifestations of our national uncertainties and deep divisions. At this moment Congress is engaged in a great debate about 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 20, 2021 | ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Robert Ebert, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Medical School, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty, Polarization in America, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The American Jobs Act, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
Last Friday’s letter was an attempt to begin to explore the relationships between what we chose to do and how we are compensated. I spent a long time backing into this difficult subject by going all the way back to 1965 and trying to draw some wisdom from my...
