by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 20, 2026 | A story from my life, Authoritarianism, community, David Brooks, Derek Thompson, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Bernard Lown, Dr. Eugene Braunwald, Dr. George Thorne, Dr. Henry Asbury Christian, Dr. Lewis Dexter, Dr. Richard Gorlin, Dr. Soma Weiss, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, George Packer, MAGA, nativism, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Politics and Healthcare, Reinhold Niebuhr, self-interest, Social Determinants of Health, status quo, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness:, What Made Trump Possible?
February 20, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking For The Most Effective Approach To A Better Future I keep hoping that my reading will help me better understand our times and reassure me that we will eventually return to our efforts to improve the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 3, 2025 | ACA, America's defective social safety net, Article II of the Constitution, Authoritarianism, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Government Shutdown, Kleptocracy, MAGA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, Political "norms", Politics and Healthcare, signs and symptoms of a failing democracy, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
October 3, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Slipsliding Away: Healthcare’s Impending Decline in a “Failing Democracy” I imagine that many of my readers are tired of my comments about politics and the threat that President Trump poses to continuous...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 22, 2025 | Article II of the Constitution, Authoritarianism, Conservative Values, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Gilding of the presidency, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Policy, healthcare under Trump, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Progressive Values, Project 2025, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The president's enablers, The Triple Aim, Thomas Edsall, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
August 22, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The President’s Exceptional Intrusiveness If you are like me, you may open an online newspaper each morning with some trepidation. You are apprehensive. The central question you are exploring is whether...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 19, 2024 | 2024 elections, Attempt Assassination of Donald Trump, Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, Concerns about Biden's fitness for office, Democracy on the Ballot, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, J.D. Vance, Politics and Healthcare, Project 2025, Republican National Convention, Republican Platform for 2024, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
July 19, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, It Has Been A Very Strange Week We never know what unexpected event the next day or even the next hour might bring to us. What were you doing late last Saturday afternoon while Biden was in a contentious meeting...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 20, 2022 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Authoritarianism, COVID, Critical Race Theory, Don Berwick, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Liberal Values, Making America Great Again, Martin Luther King Jr, Mass Shooting in Buffalo, Polarization in America, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Replacement Theory
May 20, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, IIliberalism And The Future Of Healthcare It is easy to get lost in the despair of the moment. My newspapers and TV commentators tell me more than I want to know about mass shootings in Buffalo and Southern...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 3, 2021 | Authoritarianism, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Democratic control of the House, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Equity, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Transformation, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Ibram X. Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, intersectionality, Per Scholas, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Wicked Problems
December 3, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, If There Are Four Americas, What Does That Mean For Healthcare? We all are aware of the deep bipartisan divide that stymies attempts to improve access to healthcare and lower its cost for all consumers. The same...
