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 | Mar 23, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, a personal testimony, A Promised Land By Barack Obama, ACA, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Jonathan Haidt, Marcus Borg, Nicholas Kristof, Polarization in America, Racial Inequality, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, TARP, the filibuster, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
One of the most intriguing challenges of the Trump era for me has been to explain his ability to attract the vigorous and loyal support of the religious right and working-class White voters in red states. What has been a puzzling observation of many liberal and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 22, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Culture, culture wars, E.J. Dione, Empathy, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Polarization in America, President Trump, Resilience, Social Determinants of Health, The election of Joe Biden, the president's lies
I have had the feeling, and I know that it has been shared by many of you, that 2020 was the most difficult year that I can remember. Against that universal feeling, or perhaps because of it, The Washington Post published an editorial last week entitled “20...
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...
