by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 6, 2026 | A Super Bowl story, Conservative Values, Culture, David Brooks, Edmund Burke, Featured Post, Garrison Keillor, healthcare under Trump, hyperindividualism, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Liberalism, Polarization in America, Political "norms", Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Thomas Hobbes
February 6, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Things Change I was surprised, shocked, and briefly in despair last weekend when I followed my routine of reviewing the opinion pieces in the New York Times and discovered that, after 22 years, David Brooks had...
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 | Mar 28, 2025 | Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Health and Human Services, Healthcare equity, J.D. Vance, Jeff Goldberg, Life Expectancy in America, Medicaid, Medicare, Pete Hegseth, Political "norms", Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
March 28, 2025 Dear Interesed Readers, Weird, Confusing, and Ultimately Very Problematic “You can’t make this stuff up” is one of the most overused and tired clichés in our language, but it has popped into my mind almost every day during the first two...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 7, 2025 | DEI, DOGE, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare disparities, healthcare under Trump, Jennifer Rubin, MAGA, narcissistic sociopath, Political "norms", Project 2025, right-wing woke, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's lies, Trump's March 4th speech to Congress, Trump’s tariffs
March 7, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Our Healthcare Is Threatened By “Right-wing Woke” I wish I was creative enough to have coined the phrase “right-wing woke,” but the honor belongs to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. I knew that he had “hit...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 29, 2024 | Conservative Values, Donald Trump, Featured Post, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, J.D. Vance, MAGA, Political "norms", Politics and Healthcare, Robert Kennedy Jr., Sean Illing, Social Determinants of Health, The 2024 Presidential Election, The Gray Area, The Triple Aim, Trump's Cabinet Appointments, Trump's cabinet selections, Trump's plans for radical changes, Zach Beauchamp
November 29, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Anxious Times. Can It Get Weirder? Can a candidate claim a landside if they got less than fifty percent of the vote? Can you say you have a mandate if your raw vote margin was smaller than any popular vote...
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...
