by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 18, 2020 | Amitai Etzioni, Communitarianism, Conservative Values, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Liberal Values, Polarization in America, Progressive Values, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
More often than I like to admit, I am surprised and embarrassed by my lack of familiarity with something that is news to me that has been general knowledge for others for some time. It happened again this week. I had never heard of communitarianism or Amitai...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 14, 2020 | ACA, Charity, compassion fatigue, Equity, Featured Post, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access
February 14, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Charity, Empathy, and Equity, How Are They Related? Before launching into the main thoughts of this letter, let me clarify some of my sharp comments about Florida. One of my family members, a Floridian,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 11, 2020 | ACA, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Florida Memories, Impeachment of Donald Trump, Inequality, Primary Day in New Hampshire, The Triple Aim
My wife and I have been traveling since last Thursday. We are in Florida, but my eye has been on the weather and the presidential primary in New Hampshire. We left in a snowstorm that I am told evolved into a traffic paralyzing ice storm, followed by more snow,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 7, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Featured Post, Impeachment Hearings, Medicare For All, political polarization, Politics, pre existing conditions, President Trump, Social Determinants of Health, The President's Trial in The Senate, The Triple Aim
7 February 2020 Dear Interested Readers, What’s Next? The Valley News, my local newspaper, serves me in two ways, if it is delivered. Delivery has been erratic over the last six months since the delivery man, “Sonnie,” got mad at someone in...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 4, 2020 | Daniel Kahneman, Dialog Across the Divide, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Inequality, Making America Great Again, Poverty and healthcare, the Golden Rule, The Triple Aim, Who Is My Neighbor?
For more than four years I have had a visceral reaction to red hats with bold letters spelling out Make America Great Again. Occasionally, the hat’s message may be reduced to the acronym MAGA, or some combination of MAGA and Trump. Theoretically, there is...