by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 26, 2023 | ACA, AI in healthcare, Denial nurse, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, healthcare disparities, Inequality, out of pocket healthcare costs, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Debt Ceiling Crisis
May 26, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal published a column last week in The Washington Post entitled “Denials of health-insurance claims are rising — and getting weirder.” Her article caught my eye because it was reprinted in my...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 19, 2023 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, ACA, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, debt ceiling, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Matthew Desmond, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Public Option, Universal Access
May 19, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, You Can’t Get There From Here The statement “You can’t get there from here!” was made famous in a brief comedy monologue entitled “Which Way to Millinocket? that was created by the very talented comedy team of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 14, 2023 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Dr. Daniel Dawes, Dr. Eric Reinhardt, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Supreme Court and Healthcare
April 14, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Examining The Political Determinants of Health Last fall, an Interested Reader who lives in Florida sent me an article by Dr. Eric Reinhardt entitled “Medicine for the People: As more and more doctors awaken to the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 7, 2023 | 2024 elections, ACA, Donald Trump's future, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA, Politics and Healthcare, Sarah Kliff, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, Trump's indictment in New York
April 7, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Can You Believe That Both Trump and the ACA are in Court? This week’s news had some variation from what I expected. First, many of the talking heads of television journalists and the pundits that I read in the New...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 3, 2023 | ACA, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Child Tax Credit, COVID, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Outcomes, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicaid post COVID, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health
March 3, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Three Steps Backwards; Where you live makes difference! Most of us realize that when Congress failed to extend the Child Tax Credit at the end of 2021 millions of children that had been briefly lifted out of poverty...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 13, 2023 | 118th Congress, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Hakeem Jeffries, Inequality in Healthcare, Kevin McCarthy, Martin Luther King Jr, political polarization, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's war in Ukraine, Racism in America, Republican Control of the House, Selection of the Speaker of the House, Social Determinants of Health, Where Do We Go From Here?
January 13, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Contemplating the Message of Dr. King The years have gone by so fast. 1968 was both yesterday and a lifetime ago. Over the last few years as I have gone deeper and deeper into my understanding of the social...
