by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 14, 2023 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Dr. Daniel Dawes, Dr. Eric Reinhardt, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Supreme Court and Healthcare
April 14, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Examining The Political Determinants of Health Last fall, an Interested Reader who lives in Florida sent me an article by Dr. Eric Reinhardt entitled “Medicine for the People: As more and more doctors awaken to the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 7, 2023 | 2024 elections, ACA, Donald Trump's future, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA, Politics and Healthcare, Sarah Kliff, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, Trump's indictment in New York
April 7, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Can You Believe That Both Trump and the ACA are in Court? This week’s news had some variation from what I expected. First, many of the talking heads of television journalists and the pundits that I read in the New...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 31, 2023 | A story from my life, Burnout, Career development, COVID stress on hospital resources, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Match Day, Primary Care Challenges, Professional Satisfaction, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
March 31, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, There Are Big Problems In the Pipeline For New Doctors It’s been a long time since “Match Day 1971,” and I don’t remember the scene as well as I remember the emotions. I was delighted to learn that I had...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 24, 2023 | antiracism, Biases, Burnout, COVID, Critical Race Theory, Daniel Kahneman, Diversity, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Equity, ESG, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Outcomes, Implicit Bias, Inclusion, intersectionality, LaShyra Nolen., Linda Villarosa, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine, woke healthcare
March 24, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, “Woke” Healthcare: Implicit Racism, DEI, ESG, Biases, Intersectionality, and Duality in Healthcare I don’t know if you noticed it or not, but some politicians who seek to gain political advantage on the right tried...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 17, 2023 | Arlie Russell Hochschild, Biases, Communitarianism, Conservative Values, Economic inequality, Evictions, Featured Post, food Insecurity, Healthcare Outcomes, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Inequality, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Matthew Desmond, Poverty and healthcare, Progressive Values, Social Determinants of Health
March 17, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Desmond Implies that Progressives and Conservatives Share Some Responsibility for Poverty: What Needs to Change to Improve the Social Determinants of Health? Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Before you drink...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 10, 2023 | A story from my life, Adaptive Change, Atrium Health, Consolidation in healthcare, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Health in America, Healthcare in Rural America, improving the delivery of care, Medical Professionalism, Primary Care, the difficulties of change, Wisconsin Health Atlas
March 10, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About How Things Have Changed and Hopefully Will Continue To Change My wife and I have just returned from a trip to my mother’s hometown in North Carolina where I spent many happy summer days as a child. Our trip...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 3, 2023 | ACA, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Child Tax Credit, COVID, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Outcomes, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicaid post COVID, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health
March 3, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Three Steps Backwards; Where you live makes difference! Most of us realize that when Congress failed to extend the Child Tax Credit at the end of 2021 millions of children that had been briefly lifted out of poverty...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 24, 2023 | Black History Month, COVID uncertainty, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, President Volodymyr Zelensky’, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, VUCA
February 24, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri Of Anniversaries and Observations I apologize for making a self-congratulatory statement, but anniversaries are meaningful. This is the fifteenth anniversary of these Friday letters. There has been...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 17, 2023 | 2024 elections, Black History Month, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Governor Ron DeSantis, healthcare disparities, Ibram X. Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, Kars for Kearsarge, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Linda Villarosa, Matthew Desmond, Nikki Haley, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Racism in America, Senator Mitch McConnell, Slavery's Capitalism, structural racism in medicine, The 1619 Project
February 17, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Contemplating the Social Determinants of Health During Black History Month It’s February, and that means it is “Black History Month.” As I thought about how important it is for all Americans to recognize the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 10, 2023 | 2024 elections, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Elizabeth Warren, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Life Expectancy, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's war in Ukraine, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Social Determinants of Health, State of the Union Address, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The New Hampshire presidential primary
February 10, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, President Biden Had A Lot To Say, And He Said It Well. I hate to say it, but I have got a feeling that the near-term likelihood of the improvement of the health of America is dependent upon the political future...
