by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 11, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Medicare For All, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, Universal Access, Waste in healthcare, Xavier Becerra
December 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Survive The Moment While Waiting For The Slow Evolution of Positive Change It has been a gruesome week in Lake Wobegon and across the land. It turns out that even in Lake Wobegon strange and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 8, 2020 | Advent and Christmas, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Future of Heathcare, Joe Biden, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
Let me offer you an introductory warning and a rationalization. I have to admit that I can’t overcome my compulsion to write about what is on my mind. That lack of self control then forces me to hope that I can twist my obsession of the moment into something...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 4, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, coronavirus, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Joe Biden and the Future, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
December 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Continuing to Look Forward From A Strange Moment In Time It is very hard to think about the future when you are mired in the realities of a week as disorienting as this past one. Can you believe that the...
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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 27, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Black Lives Matter, burnout and professional fulfillment, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Dean Robert Ebert, diseases of despair, Don Berwick, Empathy, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Six Domains of Quality, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
November 27, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Where Do We Begin The Work? During this last week I have been listening to Barack Obama read his book, A Promise Land, on my afternoon walks. It has been an incredible experience. I am delighted that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 24, 2020 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Build Back Better, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Polarization in America, The 2020 election, The Public Option
This time three weeks ago many Americans were wearing masks while standing in lines with six feet of distance on either side from others in line while waiting patiently to cast their vote. Some stood for hours in lines designed to discourage them from...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 20, 2020 | Build Back Better, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Hope, Obama's The Promised Land, Polarization in America, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
November 20, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, A Good Read In Preparation For A Better Future If you are a regular reader of these notes, you know that I love to read. One of my favorite quotes is from Will Rogers, the famous humorist, who loved to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 17, 2020 | Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Joe Biden, Paul Krugman, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
If you are like me, you are wondering when the uncertainty over the election will end. I ask myself several times a day if there is really some path to a second Trump term. His supporters are in the streets proclaiming that they love him and repeating his claim...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 13, 2020 | "Joy in Medicine?", Balint Groups, Burnout, burnout and professional fulfillment, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Coles and the "Call of Service", Essential Workers, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", Joe Biden, President Trump, professional fulfillment, The 2020 election
November 13, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, An Introduction To A Remarkable Book I have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Two things that I have anticipated have happened simultaneously. First, the election is sort of behind us. If...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 10, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Equity, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Polarization in America, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
Where were you at 11:30 AM last Saturday? I was sitting bleary eyed in front of my television watching John King and Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Outside the weather was glorious, and I knew that there were many “productive” things that I could be doing that...
