by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 23, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, a personal testimony, A Promised Land By Barack Obama, ACA, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Jonathan Haidt, Marcus Borg, Nicholas Kristof, Polarization in America, Racial Inequality, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, TARP, the filibuster, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
One of the most intriguing challenges of the Trump era for me has been to explain his ability to attract the vigorous and loyal support of the religious right and working-class White voters in red states. What has been a puzzling observation of many liberal and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 29, 2021 | ACA, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Build Back Better, Covid-19, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Pandemic Management, Polarization in America, Public Health, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
January 29, 2021 Dear Interested Readers The First Week of Building Back Better Reveals That We Have Much To Do From what I read in the papers, the president has been very busy cleaning up after the last occupant of the White House. Elizabeth...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 15, 2021 | American exceptionalism, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, George Floyd, Global Warming, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Impeachment of Donald Trump, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Martin Luther King Jr, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The president's enablers, The Triple Aim
January 15, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About Abraham, Martin, and John As dark and disturbing as the last week has been, we have seen darker and more disturbing days. As I was thinking about the fact that today would be Martin Luther...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 12, 2021 | Build Back Better, Covid-19, culture wars, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Riots in the Capital, The President's COVID-19 Infection, Zoonosis
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Oxford Languages “word of the year” for 2020 was “pandemic.” There was so much change in our language usage in 2020 related to the COVID experience that Oxford Languages which is the parent organization of the Oxford English...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 8, 2021 | Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, equal justice, Featured Post, Georgia's runoff election for two Senate seats, Impeachment of Donald Trump, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Senate Republicans' plans to block or delay the confirmation of Joe Biden, Social Determinants of Health, The Attack on the Capitol, The House considers impeachment, The president's enablers, the president's lies
January 8, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, I Am Trying To Hold On For Twelve More Days While Everything Seems To Be Spinning Out of Control Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard that John Kennedy had been shot...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 5, 2021 | Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Georgia rally, Georgia's runoff election for two Senate seats, Polarization in America, QAnon, Senate Republicans' plans to block or delay the confirmation of Joe Biden, the president's lies, Trumps phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State
I told myself that I was done with Trump. I resolved that I would just trust that he would soon be gone and that despite the warnings of fear mongers and hypercautious media types looking for audiences I would just continue to assume that Joe Biden would be...