by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 14, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, ACA, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Children in poverty, Featured Post, For The People Act, healthcare disparities, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Politics and Healthcare, Public Option, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, the filibuster, The John R Lewis Voting Rights Act, The Triple Aim
May 14, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What Is Joe Going to Do? I am waiting to have President Biden give us more information about how he will move us closer to universal access to care. During the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates, one of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 11, 2021 | Children in poverty, Climate Crisis, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Elizabeth Warren, Ezra Klein, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Inequality, Persist by Elizabeth Warren, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, the filibuster, The Triple Aim
Before I retired, especially after Atrius became involved with CMMI’s Pioneer ACO project, I made frequent trips to Washington. The Washington shuttle from Boston was always packed with people who looked like they were involved with very important business. It...
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 | Apr 2, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Paul Krugman, Population Health, the filibuster
April 2, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, The President’s Big Bill Addresses The Social Determinants of Health The president is determined to build back America to be more equitable and productive than it has ever been before. He formally presented...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 23, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, a personal testimony, A Promised Land By Barack Obama, ACA, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Jonathan Haidt, Marcus Borg, Nicholas Kristof, Polarization in America, Racial Inequality, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, TARP, the filibuster, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
One of the most intriguing challenges of the Trump era for me has been to explain his ability to attract the vigorous and loyal support of the religious right and working-class White voters in red states. What has been a puzzling observation of many liberal and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 16, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Dr. Robert Ebert, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Innovation in Healthcare, medical home, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the centrality of Primary Care, the filibuster, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
If you have avoided these notes for the past few weeks, you may not know that I have been systematically reviewing the recommendations of the Commonwealth Fund’s Task Force On Payment and Delivery System Reform. There are six sections to the report. So far we have...
