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...
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 | Aug 15, 2025 | AMA vs. universal coverage, Burnout, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, doctor shortage, Dr. David Blumenthal, Dr. Harvey Cushing, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, income inequality as a threat to healthcare, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicare, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, political determinants of health, Project 2025, RFK Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's attack on medical research, Trump's chaos strategy, Universal Access
August 15, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Living in Trump’s Turbulent World In what seems to be an era of ongoing expanding and universal conflict, healthcare—the care of the individual, the collective effort to improve its delivery to everyone, its...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 18, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Alan Garber, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Thomas Friedman, Trump's attempts to extort universities, Trump's first 88 days
April 18, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Everything Is Connected, Uncertain, and Likely to Get Worse The last thirty years have convinced me that healthcare, political issues, controversial social issues, and economics are connected in ways that can’t be...
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 | Oct 4, 2024 | "Pants on Fire Lies", Abortion, ACA, Chat GPT, Dr. Daniel Dawes, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Governor Tim Walz, healthcare disparities, J.D. Vance, Political "norms", political determinants of health, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The 2024 Presidential Election, The Triple Aim, Vice Presidential debate
October 4, 2024 Dear Interested Readers: Thirty-two Days to Go and Counting Down In the Healthcare Musings letter for last week, I reviewed the relationship between the Structural Determinants of Health, the Political Determinants of Health, and the...
