by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 21, 2022 | Build Back Better, COVID, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Garrison Keillor, Health and Healthcare, healthcare disparities, Joe Manchin, Martin Luther King Jr, Omicron variant, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, the filibuster, voter rights
January 21, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, A Week That Generated Much Concern Was it not ironic that just four days after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s actual birthday, and two days after this year’s celebration of his life, the Senate slammed the door on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 14, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, COVID, Dr. George Thorn, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, January 6 attack on the Capitol, Joe Manchin, Kars for Kearsarge, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Martin Luther King Jr, Polarization in America, political identity, Politics and Healthcare, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health, The John R Lewis Voting Rights Act, voter rights, Why We Are Polarized
January 14, 2022 Dear Interested Readers: Improving The Social Determinants of Health Near Home While out for a walk this week I was delighted to be listening to a podcast from Ezra Klein who now is a fixture at the New York Times but had been...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 7, 2022 | ACA, Build Back Better, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Ex-President Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, In the Bleak Midwinter, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Omicron variant, Politics and Healthcare, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, The 2020 election, The Attack on the Capitol, The Triple Aim
January 7, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts on COVID, January 6th, And The Future of Healthcare In the Bleak Midwinter If you remember my multiple previous comments about “In the Bleak Midwinter,” a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 31, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, COVID, COVID uncertainty, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Omicron variant, Pandemic Management, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Progressive Values, Senator Joe Manchin, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The importance of testing in pandemic management, Vaccine hesitancy, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
December 31, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On 2021, A Very Unusual And Unpleasant Year, And Hopes For A Better 2022. If you are reading this letter, you have survived a tough year. Well, maybe, there are a few hours before that is certain. On...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 24, 2021 | Build Back Better, Children in poverty, Climate Crisis, COVID uncertainty, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Inequality, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Omicron variant, Paul Krugman, Poverty and healthcare, Ronald Reagan
December 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Warning: The first section of this letter is at times sarcastic. Its content ranges from overt hostility to whimsical fantasy that attempts to answer the question, “What’s the problem with Joe Manchin?” It fails...
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 10, 2021 | COVID in New Hampshire, COVID uncertainty, Featured Post, Governor Chris Sununu, healthcare disparitiies, Home testing for COVID, Misinformation, Nursing Shortages, Omicron variant, Paul Romer, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Population Health, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The importance of testing in pandemic management, Vaccine hesitancy
December 10, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, COVID Confusion, Worries, and Concerns The last few weeks have felt like a COVID storm here in New Hampshire as we vaulted over Michigan into first place in the nation with the most COVID cases per 100,000...
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 26, 2021 | "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes, ACA, Continuous Improvement, Equity, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, healthcare disparities, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Practice Improvement, The Triple Aim
November 26, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thanksgivings For The Opportunities For Service In Troubled Times I hope that by now you have experienced a resolution of any Thanksgiving Day indigestion or mental distress that might have arisen from temporary...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 19, 2021 | Children in poverty, COVID, Economic inequality, Entitlements, Family Health Project, Featured Post, Inequality, Innovation, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Joe Knowles, Martin Luther King Jr, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Ronald Reagan, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, Universal Basic Income
19 November 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Poverty, Children, and the Family Health Project of Joe Knowles Last April in a piece entitled “Moving From Contemplation to Action” I began my introduction to of the Family Health Project which was the idea of...
