by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 9, 2021 | ACA, Activism in Healthcare, Biden's Transformation, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality, Mass shootings as an epidemic, Politics and Healthcare, Six Domains of Quality, transformational change
April 9, 22021 Dear Interested Readers, Preparing For Transformation I have been feeling disoriented since the Biden/ Harris inauguration. For four years I had felt vulnerable to the mismanagement and outright inhumanity of a narcissistic wannabe...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 6, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, ACA, Equity, Featured Post, For The People Act, healthcare disparities, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Jobs Act, the filibuster, The John R Lewis Voting Rights Act
I will reveal a secret. I frequently don’t have a vision of what will be in these notes until I can decide on the picture in the header for the post. The picture often helps me pull the idea together. If a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps a good...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 2, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Paul Krugman, Population Health, the filibuster
April 2, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, The President’s Big Bill Addresses The Social Determinants of Health The president is determined to build back America to be more equitable and productive than it has ever been before. He formally presented...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 30, 2021 | Adaptive Change, Atul Gawande, chronic disease management, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Polio and The Salk Vaccine, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Virtual Shared Medical Appointments
I am no medical historian, but I dare say that the history of medicine could be described as a “search for a better way.” Sometimes the search is cheered by the people and supported by entrepreneurs and governments desperate for solutions to threatening...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 26, 2021 | ACA, Atrium Health, Economic inequality, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, healthcare finance, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Joe Knowles, Medicare For All, out of pocket healthcare costs, Social Determinants of Health, Surprise Medical Bills, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare, Zeev Neuwirth
March 26, 2021 Dear Interested Reader, Have We Forgotten That The Cost of Care Is A Problem? I mention the Triple Aim in many of my posts. In my opinion, the best graphic that presents the concept was created by the Institute For Healthcare...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 19, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Joe Knowles, Non Zero, Poverty and healthcare, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, The Canadian Experiment With UBI, The Stockton Experiment with UBI, Universal Basic Income
March 19, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, To Discuss The Social Determinants of Health Is To Discuss Poverty The Kaiser Family Foundation published a paper this week that detailed the impact on the social determinants of health of the 1.9 COVID...