by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 30, 2026 | "concepts of a plan", 2026 midterm elections, ACA market subsidies, Access to care, AMA vs. universal coverage, Bernie Sanders, David Blumenthal, Dr. Ashish Jha, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, healthcare finance, Life Expectancy, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, RFK Jr.
January 30, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The High Cost of Care Remains an Unsolved Problem For All of Us For many years, there has been too much uncertainty about the future of American healthcare. Even those of us who have coverage that should give us...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 9, 2026 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, Community Action Agencies, David Brooks, Featured Post, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Project 2025, Reinhold Niebuhr, Seeking Shalom, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, Trump chaos, Venezuela
January 9, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, In the Midst of Chaos We Can Focus On Community Should we say that 2026 is off to a strange start? Our president is now “running” Venezuela. There is adventure on the high seas as we “capture” oil freighters with...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 12, 2025 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, ACOs, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Zack Cooper
December 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, I Am Trying to Develop a Little Hope Now and then, I get an unexpected email response to one of these letters. This week, I got one of those surprises in an email from a longtime reader. He wrote: Have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 14, 2025 | 2026 midterm elections, ACA, ACA market subsidies, Bernie Sanders, Featured Post, food Insecurity, MAGA, Medicaid, narcissistic sociopath, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Government Shutdown, Trump's "concept of a plan" for healthcare
November 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Mixed Feelings About the End of the Shutdown For over forty days, the shutdown was painful and, at its worst, hard to rationalize, as it was always doubtful that the Republicans would ever agree to the primary...