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 | Feb 13, 2026 | A personal history, BEMA, Christian Nationalism, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Four Pillars of Medical Ethics, healthcare under Trump, hermeneutics, John Fugelsang, MAGA, Marty Solomon, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, Separation of Church and Hate, The Triple Aim
February 13, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The Benefits of Four Pillars For the past couple of years, on many of my walks, I have been listening to a theological podcast, BEMA Discipleship, offered by a very entertaining and knowledgeable minister who...
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 | 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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 24, 2025 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, DEI, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Featured Post, Government Shutdown, Henry Olsen, MAGA, No Kings protest, non profit healthcare institutions, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Rand Paul, Sister Irene Kraus, Social Determinants of Health, Speaker Mike Johnson, Stephen Lipstein, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
October 24, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Sharing A Little Common Ground With Some on the Right, and a Few Positive Aspects of the Corporatization of Healthcare, As We Endure the “Shutdown.” In several editions of this weekly letter during...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 10, 2025 | A story from my life, ACA, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Government Shutdown, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, MAGA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace, Trump's plan for Gaza, Where Do We Go From Here?
10 October 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Shutdown Is An Exercise in the Political Determinants of Health In this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a poignant essay can be found at the end of the “Perspectives” section. It was...
