by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 15, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hands Across the Hills, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I don’t really remember when I first met Don Berwick. He joined Harvard Community Health Plan in the late seventies as a pediatrician. I began my career there a few years earlier in 1975 right out of my training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before it...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 11, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Medicare For All, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, Universal Access, Waste in healthcare, Xavier Becerra
December 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Survive The Moment While Waiting For The Slow Evolution of Positive Change It has been a gruesome week in Lake Wobegon and across the land. It turns out that even in Lake Wobegon strange and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 4, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, coronavirus, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Joe Biden and the Future, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
December 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Continuing to Look Forward From A Strange Moment In Time It is very hard to think about the future when you are mired in the realities of a week as disorienting as this past one. Can you believe that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 17, 2020 | Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Joe Biden, Paul Krugman, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
If you are like me, you are wondering when the uncertainty over the election will end. I ask myself several times a day if there is really some path to a second Trump term. His supporters are in the streets proclaiming that they love him and repeating his claim...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 6, 2020 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, diseases of despair, Donald Trump's future, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Improving the health of the poor, Joe Biden, John McCain, Retrograde Mercury, Social Determinants of Health, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, the president's lies, The Triple Aim
November 6, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Observations During A Nail Biter That Will Determine The Future Of The Country And Healthcare I have been watching CNN or listening to NPR for most of the time since the polls closed on Tuesday evening....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 27, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Benefits of the ACA, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Retrograde Mercury, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The threat to women's reproductive rights
In one week the retrograde Mercury will be over, Election Day will be behind us, and we will enter the next phase of uncertainty in the process of electing the president. The retrograde has been tough on me these last few weeks. There have been several...