by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 18, 2020 | Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Essential Workers, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Michelle Obama, Presidential Politics, The "virtual" Democratic Convention, The 2020 election, The Triple Aim
The political conventions for 2020 began last night. I’ve been watching these events longer than I have been paying attention to the Olympics. I first paid attention to the Olympics in 1956, but do not remember seeing them on TV. I remember watching the 1952...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 14, 2020 | ACA, Build Back Better, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Economic inequality, Education and The Pandemic, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Liberal Values, Medicare For All, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Public Option, The Triple Aim
August 14, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Next 81 Days Of The Campaign For Better Health Yesterday morning I was up early, about 8AM. My Florida family was trying to get away early on their trip back to Miami. I was not enthusiastic about them...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 14, 2020 | Boston Medical Center, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Guthrie Clinic, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim, The World After COVID-19, Universal Access
My wife and I were recently watching the PBS program “The Vote” when it occurred to me how long it takes to achieve social change. The story of Women’s Suffrage is an international saga that really spans a few thousand years. It was not until 2015 when Suadi...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 19, 2020 | A personal history of social change, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, General Mark Milley, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, John Bolton's assertions, Juneteenth, Justin Locke, President Trump, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racism in America, Reopening the economy, The 2020 elections, The Triple Aim
June 19, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Is “Living On Tulsa Time” Appropriate For These Times? Donald Ray Williams is gone now, but he is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Williams sang many hit songs, but one in particular, “Tulsa Time,” written...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 10, 2020 | Bernie Sanders, coronavirus, Covid-19, Joe Biden, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 elections, The Triple Aim, The World After COVID-19
April 10, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, COVID-19 Is A Stress Test For Our Country For over forty years I used stress tests to help me solve clinical problems and judge the capacity of my patient to respond to a physical stress. Over the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 18, 2020 | Amitai Etzioni, Communitarianism, Conservative Values, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Liberal Values, Polarization in America, Progressive Values, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
More often than I like to admit, I am surprised and embarrassed by my lack of familiarity with something that is news to me that has been general knowledge for others for some time. It happened again this week. I had never heard of communitarianism or Amitai...