by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 27, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, ACA, Annual State of the Union address, Benefits of the ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Markets, Kleptocracy, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Robert Kennedy Jr., SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Trump's “Great Healthcare Plan.”, Trump's lies
February 27, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Do You Think Trump Can “Fix” Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Access? I delayed my usual weekly writing process this week because I was interested in hearing whether the president might spend some time talking...
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 2, 2026 | 120th Congress, 2026 midterm elections, ACA, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health
2 January 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back At ‘25 With Regrets, Looking Forward to ‘26 With Hope Most Sunday mornings, my wife and I record CBS Sunday Morning hosted by veteran TV journalist Jane Pauley. We often don’t listen to it until later...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 26, 2025 | A personal history, abundance, Christmas, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Primary Care, The Care Experience, the centrality of Primary Care, the good doctor
December 26, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, What Are The Attributes of A Good Doctor? Many doctors are very good writers. This time of year, I see articles talking about the best books of the last year. Usually, on a list of a dozen or more, I might have...
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 | Dec 5, 2025 | A personal history, AMA vs. universal coverage, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, David Cutler, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, New England Journal of Medicine, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Six Domains of Quality, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
December 5, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Need a New Approach to Healthcare Looking back on the years 2008-2013, when I had leadership responsibilities at a large and influential medical practice, I have very mixed feelings. I am pleased to have...