by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 22, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Culture, culture wars, E.J. Dione, Empathy, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Polarization in America, President Trump, Resilience, Social Determinants of Health, The election of Joe Biden, the president's lies
I have had the feeling, and I know that it has been shared by many of you, that 2020 was the most difficult year that I can remember. Against that universal feeling, or perhaps because of it, The Washington Post published an editorial last week entitled “20...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 18, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, Empathy, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy Formation, Susan Rice, The Triple Aim
December 18, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, More Musing About What’s Next Last night I had the unique opportunity to hear Susan Rice speak at a virtual presentation of the Boston Speakers Series. She has an impressive resume and a very interesting...
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...
