by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 1, 2021 | Biases, David Brooks, Dean Robert Ebert, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Essential Workers, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Paul Krugman, Polarization in America, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, The election of Joe Biden, The World After COVID-19
January 1, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, A Hearty Welcome to 2021! We made it! We have turned the page on 2020. Congratulation to us all. If you are reading these words that were written on the morning of New Year’s Day you are entitled to a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 29, 2020 | ACA, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Education and The Pandemic, Featured Post, George Floyd, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
Never before have I been happier to see a year finally end. 2020 was a traumatic experience. For many years, the humorist Dave Barry has been writing a column at the end of the year that summarizes the past events of the year lest we forget them. This year’s...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 25, 2020 | Atrius Health, Civility, Continuous Improvement, Don Berwick, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Empathy, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, food Insecurity, Hope, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, Surprise Medical Bills, The Triple Aim
December 25, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Peace, Hope, Love, Joy? Christmas has been on a Friday only twice since I began writing these notes back in February 2008. I decided to dust off “Volume I,” letters that were written between February 22,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 22, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Culture, culture wars, E.J. Dione, Empathy, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Polarization in America, President Trump, Resilience, Social Determinants of Health, The election of Joe Biden, the president's lies
I have had the feeling, and I know that it has been shared by many of you, that 2020 was the most difficult year that I can remember. Against that universal feeling, or perhaps because of it, The Washington Post published an editorial last week entitled “20...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 15, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hands Across the Hills, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I don’t really remember when I first met Don Berwick. He joined Harvard Community Health Plan in the late seventies as a pediatrician. I began my career there a few years earlier in 1975 right out of my training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before it...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 1, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Future of Heathcare, gridlock, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Polarization in America, The 2020 election, The election of Joe Biden, the filibuster, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA
Joe Biden has won the presidency no matter what Donald Trump says or does, but the road ahead will be difficult for him and for all who were hoping that all the damage done to dreams of healthcare as a right for all who live in America, affordable universal...
