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...
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...
