by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 3, 2021 | Authoritarianism, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Democratic control of the House, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Equity, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Transformation, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Ibram X. Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, intersectionality, Per Scholas, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Wicked Problems
December 3, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, If There Are Four Americas, What Does That Mean For Healthcare? We all are aware of the deep bipartisan divide that stymies attempts to improve access to healthcare and lower its cost for all consumers. The same...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 26, 2021 | "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes, ACA, Continuous Improvement, Equity, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, healthcare disparities, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Practice Improvement, The Triple Aim
November 26, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thanksgivings For The Opportunities For Service In Troubled Times I hope that by now you have experienced a resolution of any Thanksgiving Day indigestion or mental distress that might have arisen from temporary...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 19, 2021 | Children in poverty, COVID, Economic inequality, Entitlements, Family Health Project, Featured Post, Inequality, Innovation, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Joe Knowles, Martin Luther King Jr, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Ronald Reagan, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, Universal Basic Income
19 November 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Poverty, Children, and the Family Health Project of Joe Knowles Last April in a piece entitled “Moving From Contemplation to Action” I began my introduction to of the Family Health Project which was the idea of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 5, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Ageism, Biases, COVID, Critical Race Theory, culture wars, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, healthcare disparities, Joe Biden, Maid by Stephanie Land, Opioid Epidemic, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Progressive Values, Racism in America, Ray Suarez, Social Determinants of Health, Virginia race for governor
November 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Have You Ever Been Broke? The newspapers are pointing out what a difference a year makes. According to the speculations in an article by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns published in the New York Times on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 15, 2021 | ACA, Atrius Health, Carilion Clinic, Costs, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Dr. Ed Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, out of pocket healthcare costs, physician culture, Politics and Healthcare, Progressive Values, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare
October 15, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About Our Failures And The Challenges Ahead My wife enjoys Facebook and Instagram despite the recent controversies generated by the whistleblower revelation of the darker side of Facebook management. She...
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...
