by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 14, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bayard Rustin, culture wars, Diane Gilworth, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Hope, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, political polarization, Poverty, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Transformative Politics
October 14, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back For Guidance Going Forward I am probably like a lot of Democrats who can remember the enthusiasm with which we once embraced heroes like JFK, RFK, Gene McCarthy, and even Jimmy Carter and Bill...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 7, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, Featured Post, Inflation, Social Determinants of Health
October 7, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Perilously Uncertain Times I am not a good fit for my septuagenarian demographic. I don’t watch Fox News. I do on rare occasions watch a football game on Fox, but even that’s getting rarer and rarer since I am...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 2, 2022 | "Wicked Problems" in Healthcare, 2022 midterm elections, ACA, ACO, COVID, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Governor Abbott, Governor Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden and the Future, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Politics and Healthcare, Public Health, Ronald Reagan, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The Triple Aim
September 2, 2022 Dear Interested Readers. Where Is The Quality of Healthcare On Our List Of Concerns? It does not take long for the hot topics of the day to change. It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats were debating “Medicare for All” versus “Medicare...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 12, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, Children in poverty, Economic inequality, Effective altruism, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, Inflation, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, out of pocket healthcare costs, political polarization, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The sixth extinction, What we owe to future generations, Will MacAskill
August 12, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What Do We Owe The Future? Future people count. There could be a lot of them. We can make their lives better. That quote is part of Ezra Klein’s introduction to an interview with futurist Will MacAskill...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 5, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, Build Back Better, Consequences of repealing Roe v. Wade, Economic inequality, Emily Benfer, Evictions, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Matthew Desmond, Poverty and healthcare, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The Triple Aim
August 5, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Are We Making Any Progress? It’s been a strange week. If you believe in global warming there is circumstantial evidence that sadly you may be right as a continuing drought and high temperatures in the west dry up...
