by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 25, 2019 | Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Population Health, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics
25 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Who Is Responsible? A few weeks ago, for the first post of the year, I returned to writing about the intersection of poverty and healthcare. One motivation was the realization that this year was the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 11, 2019 | Featured Post, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, synthesis, The Triple Aim
11 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis: Developing a Poverty Dialog I began my writing almost eleven years ago as a device that I hoped might promote a dialog within our practice. I felt that we had challenges ahead,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 4, 2019 | Democratic control of the House, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
4 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, We Must Address Poverty and the Social Determinants of Health I have the opinion that most Americans do not understand or spend much time thinking about the term “social determinants of health”, or connect...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 18, 2018 | ACA, Featured Post, Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA, political polarization, pre existing conditions, Presidential Politics, the Mandate
Since the latest open enrollment period for the ACA ended on December 15, I thought that now would be a good time to review all of the administrative attacks that the Trump administration had made on this much maligned law. It amazes me that a law that has given so...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 30, 2018 | Activism in Healthcare, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, political polarization
30 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Hidden Tribes and the Future of Healthcare Last spring I read The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion. It was written by Jonathan Haidt who is a “moral and political”...