by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 9, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, ACA, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Increase health care delivery systems’ preparedness for health disasters., Inequality in Healthcare, Public Health, Racial Inequality
By 6:30 on Sunday evening, I was filled to overflowing with Super Bowl hype. How many times can you hear the “G.O.A.T.” versus the “best of these times” line before you are ready to throw something at the television? The only recurrent line that has drawn more...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 29, 2021 | ACA, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Build Back Better, Covid-19, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Pandemic Management, Polarization in America, Public Health, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
January 29, 2021 Dear Interested Readers The First Week of Building Back Better Reveals That We Have Much To Do From what I read in the papers, the president has been very busy cleaning up after the last occupant of the White House. Elizabeth...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 19, 2021 | Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's Inauguration, Public Health, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Social Determinants of Health, The Attack on the Capitol, The centrality of the Constitution, The Triple Aim
I will be watching television most of the day tomorrow. The first inauguration that I remember watching was for President John Kennedy. The first televised inauguration was for Harry Truman in 1949. My family did not have a television until 1952 so I may have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 30, 2020 | ACA, Angus Deaton and Anne Case, David Brooks, Disruptive Innovation, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, E.J. Dione, Economic inequality, Empathy, Equity, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Jennifer Rubin, Paul Krugman, Progressive Values, Public Health, The 2020 elections, Tom Friedman
October 30, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s About Worthiness For Office, And Much More I am so happy that election day is almost here. I have been averaging over fifty political ads a day in my email. Political ads fill all of the air time on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 18, 2020 | and healthcare, Boston Medical Center, Covid-19, George Floyd, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Public Health, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health
September 18, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Pondering the Message of Caste in the Context of These Times One of the benefits of retirement is the time to participate in book groups and other gatherings of older folks who are still interested in a wider...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 15, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Authoritarianism, Covid-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Public Health, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
Summer is fading fast into early fall where I live. I have already had a few roaring fires in my fireplace as overnight temps slip into the high thirties. Our fireplace has an elevated hearth where I enjoy sitting as I soak up warmth from a primeval source that...