by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 2, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, Activism in Healthcare, anti-racism, Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Harvard Medical School, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The 1619 Project, The Triple Aim
In August 2019, long before we were challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic The New York Times Magazine published “The 1619 Project.” We live in a time where race and the impact of our history of slavery, the era of Jim Crow, and the continuing struggle for social...
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 26, 2021 | ACA, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Doomscrolling, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, the filibuster, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
As noted in a recent post, the COVID-19 pandemic added some new words and phrases to our vocabulary in 2020. Some words were invented, but other words that we had rarely used or had used in a different context before the pandemic enjoyed a marked increase in...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 22, 2021 | Amanda Gordon, Build Back Better, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Empathy, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Racism in America, The Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, The Triple Aim
January 22, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, An Inspiring Call To Climb The Hill Of Our Unfinished Work If you read my post from Tuesday, you know that I was very excited about the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The demographics alone...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 19, 2021 | Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's Inauguration, Public Health, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Social Determinants of Health, The Attack on the Capitol, The centrality of the Constitution, The Triple Aim
I will be watching television most of the day tomorrow. The first inauguration that I remember watching was for President John Kennedy. The first televised inauguration was for Harry Truman in 1949. My family did not have a television until 1952 so I may have...
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...
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...
