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 | Sep 19, 2025 | Activism in Healthcare, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Continuous Improvement, David Brooks, Enlightenment, Featured Post, MAGA, MAHA, Polarization in America, Robert Kennedy Jr., Russell Shorto, The Era of Dark Passions, The Island at the Center of the World
September 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Confusion In Make America Healthy Again I have read a few pundits who have pointed out that President Trump understands our problems, but he is offering the wrong solutions. I doubt that turning our backs...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 21, 2025 | Biases, Conservative Values, Continuous Improvement, culture wars, David Brooks, DEI, Elon Musk, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, intersectionality, Liberalism, Life Expectancy, MAGA, Medicaid, Politics and Healthcare, Populism, Principles of Stupidity, Progressive Values, Robert Kennedy Jr., SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
February 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Maybe Trump’s Radical Ways Are Revealing That I Am A Conservative Last Thursday I was delighted to see that David Brooks had a new opinion piece in the New York Times. His column usually comes out every...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 6, 2024 | A story from my life, ACA, Continuous Improvement, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Hope, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, mandate of hope, Polarization in America, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Progressive Values, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Saving Democracy, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Travel Nurses, Trump's cabinet selections, Trump's campaign statements
December 6, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About Healthcare During A Season of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love In Conflict With Disappointment, Conflict and Fear My lake is frozen. There is snow on the ground. The sky is clear. There is abundant...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 3, 2024 | Christian Nationalism, CommonHealth, Continuous Improvement, Creative Destruction, Depression, Disruptive Innovation, Dr. Paul Batalden, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Martha Bebinger, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
May 3, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Improving Healthcare Will Require Courage Protestant ministers of my father’s era would frequently focus their sermons on the promise of John 3:16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 12, 2024 | 2024 elections, A personal history, ACA, Atrius Health, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Continuous Improvement, Costs, Dartmouth Health, eclipse of the sun, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Path of Totality, Politics and Healthcare, Public Option, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
April 12, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, I Don’t Understand Why Healthcare Isn’t A Top Political Issue My adventures in healthcare continued this week with my much-anticipated first post-op appointment with my surgeon at Dartmouth which was three weeks...
