by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 9, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, culture wars, Don Berwick, Dr. Eric Reinhardt, Dr. Paul Farmer, Empathy, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Illiberalism, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, political determinants of health, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health
December 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Political Determinants of Health The 2022 election season is over! At least we thought it was over before Kyrsten Sinema announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party to become an Independent. It does seem...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Biases, COVID uncertainty, Equity, Hearings of House Committee on January 6, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Inflation, MAGA, Maggie Haberman, Politics and Healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Social Determinants of Health
October 21, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Don’t Fall For The Con I am hoping that sometime before the year 2045, which will be the year of my one-hundredth birthday, we will have enjoyed great success or at least substantial progress on the three issues...
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 | Sep 9, 2022 | A story from my life, ACO, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare equity, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Pioneer ACO, Queen Elizabeth, REACH ACO, System Consolidation, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About ACO Disappointments This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,” about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 15, 2022 | ACO, Biases, Climate Crisis, COVID uncertainty, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, Dualism, Economic inequality, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Implicit Bias, Inequality in Healthcare, Pioneer ACO, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, REACH ACO, Richard Rohr, structural racism in medicine, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The threat to women's reproductive rights, The Triple Aim, Tom Friedman
July 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts on Dualism, The “War of Attrition” in Ukraine, Inequality In Value-Based Reimbursement, and Inherent Biases in Medicine. From time to time when I am thinking about all the human misery in the world that is...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 24, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, 2024 elections, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Hearings of House Committee on January 6, Inequality in Healthcare, Inflation, Kars for Kearsarge, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, out of pocket healthcare costs, Poverty and healthcare, Roe v. Wade is overturned, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court
June 24, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Slip Slidin’ Away From time to time since election night in November 2016, I have found myself humming the melody of Paul Simon’s 1977 hit, “Slip Slidin’ Away” while the words pass through my mind. The fourth verse...
