by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 16, 2025 | Big Beautiful Bill, Featured Post, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, healthcare under Trump, Martin Luther King Jr, Medicaid, Moral Ambition, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Rutgar Bregman, Senator Josh Hawley, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Trump’s tariffs, Universal Basic Income
May 16, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The “One Big Beautiful Bill” and What It Might Do to Healthcare It has been another week of surprises in our ongoing adventure of the second Trump presidency. Was it a miracle or the “art of the deal” that led to the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 9, 2025 | David Brooks, DOGE, Dr. Atul Gawande, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's inept administration
May 9, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, There Are Increasing Challenges to Practice and Medical Research Until the 21st of January, the challenge to medical practice and research was how to make faster progress. The last eighty years have been a journey of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 2, 2025 | ChatGPT, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare in Rural America, MAGA, medical care in small-town America, New London Hospital, Obstetrical Care in New Hampshire, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, Trump's first 100 days in office, Trump's inept administration, Value Based Reimbursement
May 2, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The First 100 Days of a Bad Dream I apologize for the excessive attention I have given to the blatant dangers ahead inherent in our reckless president’s personality disorder and destructive ambitions. His...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 25, 2025 | David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dunning-Kruger effect, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Illiberalism, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Steven Hahn, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Thomas Friedman, Trump's Cabinet Appointments, Trump's Easter post, Trump's tariffs
April 25, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, One Hundred Days of Damage to the Nation and the Future of Its Health In his column yesterday, Thomas Friedman quoted David Brooks. Brooks has said that Donald Trump is the wrong answer to the right question. Trump...
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 | Apr 11, 2025 | amyloidosis, Dartmouth Health, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health and Human Services, Politics and Healthcare, Republican enablers, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, Trump's narcissism, Trump's tariffs
April 11, 2025 Dear Interested Readers. Warning! This has been such a turbulent week for the president, the country, economies of every country in the world, and healthcare here in America that I have needed to do three rewrites. There may be a few...
