by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 21, 2020 | Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, David Brooks, Elizabeth Warren, Empathy, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Martin Luther King Jr, Medicare For All, Public Option, Social Determinants of Health, The Democratic Convention
August 21, 2020 Dear Interested Readers. What A Week! The post on Tuesday reviewed the first night of the Democratic Convention. The high point of the evening was the speech by Michelle Obama. Some of the commentators I heard suggested that it was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 18, 2020 | Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Essential Workers, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Michelle Obama, Presidential Politics, The "virtual" Democratic Convention, The 2020 election, The Triple Aim
The political conventions for 2020 began last night. I’ve been watching these events longer than I have been paying attention to the Olympics. I first paid attention to the Olympics in 1956, but do not remember seeing them on TV. I remember watching the 1952...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 14, 2020 | ACA, Build Back Better, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Economic inequality, Education and The Pandemic, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Liberal Values, Medicare For All, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Public Option, The Triple Aim
August 14, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Next 81 Days Of The Campaign For Better Health Yesterday morning I was up early, about 8AM. My Florida family was trying to get away early on their trip back to Miami. I was not enthusiastic about them...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 11, 2020 | Continuous Improvement, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Essential Workers, Featured Post, Global Warming, Health and Healthcare, Interdependence, Lewis Thomas, Sister Joan Chittister, Social Determinants of Health, Systemness, The Green New Deal, the president's lies, Zoonosis
In each of the last two posts I have mentioned Paul Batladen’s famous observation about the output of “systems.” Last Tuesday I wrote: The great physician and advocate for continuous improvement, Paul Batalden of Dartmouth, has reminded us frequently...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 7, 2020 | Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare Policy, Inequality in Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, The Public Option
August 7, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Pandemic’s Message To Us About Healthcare Policy Earlier this week in a post entitled “The Peril We Face Has Been A Long Time Coming,” I reviewed an excellent article by Ed Jong who writes for The...
