by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 30, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus, Emerging from the pandemic, Featured Post, House hearings on the January 6 attack on the Capital., Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Non Zero, Politics and Healthcare, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, The Attack on the Capitol, the filibuster, Universal Access
July 30, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Is “Normal” A Concept That Is Over? This summer has been a very strange season with some very violent weather. Some days feel eerily spooky with a dangerous heavy haze from the West Coast fires hanging over...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 23, 2021 | anti-racism, anti-vaxxers, Black Lives Matter, Climate Crisis, culture wars, Economic inequality, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, How To Anti-Racist, Ibram X.Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Racism in America, racist policy v. racism, Social Determinants of Health, Systemic Racism
July 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Can We Use The Desire To Be Anti-Racist To Improve Healthcare? Even if you are only a casual reader of these notes you know that I am a big fan of many of the columnists who write opinion pieces in The New...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 16, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, culture wars, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, Racial Inequality, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Social Determinants of Health, the filibuster
July 16, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Are Voting Rights Critical To Improving The Social Determinants Of Health? These are tense times for me. I wish that I could just turn off the television, cancel all my newspaper and magazine subscriptions,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 9, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Critical Race Theory, culture wars, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Heather McGhee, Inequality in Healthcare, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Non Zero, Racism in America, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Social Determinants of Health, The "virtual" Democratic Convention, The 1619 Project
July 9, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What We’re All Losing After this past year and a half, almost everyone in America can name something that they have lost. What is also true is that most of us can name something that we have learned. If you...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 25, 2021 | Children in poverty, Critical Race Theory, David Brooks, diseases of despair, Dr. Bruce Perry, Economic inequality, Equity, Erik Erikson, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Improving the health of the poor, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, trauma, What Happened To You?
June 25, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What Happened to You? Most Monday mornings since the COVID lockdown began I meet on Zoom with a few local friends to discuss a book that we have all been reading. We take on one or two chapters a week and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 18, 2021 | ACA, Conservative Values, Critical Race Theory, culture wars, Economic inequality, Empathy, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, healthcare disparities, Inequality in Healthcare, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, Universal Access
June 18, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Juneteenth and a Reconfirmed ACA on One Day Speak Loudly to a Legacy of Poverty and Healthcare Disparities. Early this week, my plan for this letter was built around a review of the history of Juneteenth...
