by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 30, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Children in poverty, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, The Triple Aim
April 30, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Joe Hit It out of the Park And on the 99th day, the president returned some grace and wisdom to the office. When I lived in Waco, Texas my dad and I would play a game. He was the pastor of the First...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 27, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Activism in Healthcare, Children in poverty, Family Health Project, Featured Post, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty, Joe Knowles, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Jobs Act, The Stockton Experiment with UBI, Universal Basic Income
If you ask yourself what are the origins of healthcare disparities your answer would probably be poor access to healthcare, poor access to healthy food, poor education in underserved communities, low wages, inadequate housing, lack of job opportunities, and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 20, 2021 | ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Robert Ebert, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Medical School, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty, Polarization in America, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The American Jobs Act, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
Last Friday’s letter was an attempt to begin to explore the relationships between what we chose to do and how we are compensated. I spent a long time backing into this difficult subject by going all the way back to 1965 and trying to draw some wisdom from my...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 13, 2021 | a personal testimony, Activism in Healthcare, Atrius Health, Biden's Transformation, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, E.J. Dione, Equity, Ezra Klein, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Quality, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, The Triple Aim, transformational change
The “serious” section of Friday’s post was entitled “Preparing For Transformation.” At the end of the post after talking about the transformation that Joe Biden was trying to lead as we emerge from the pandemic I promised that I would be returning to the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 6, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, ACA, Equity, Featured Post, For The People Act, healthcare disparities, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Jobs Act, the filibuster, The John R Lewis Voting Rights Act
I will reveal a secret. I frequently don’t have a vision of what will be in these notes until I can decide on the picture in the header for the post. The picture often helps me pull the idea together. If a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps a good...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 30, 2021 | Adaptive Change, Atul Gawande, chronic disease management, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Polio and The Salk Vaccine, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Virtual Shared Medical Appointments
I am no medical historian, but I dare say that the history of medicine could be described as a “search for a better way.” Sometimes the search is cheered by the people and supported by entrepreneurs and governments desperate for solutions to threatening...