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 | 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 | Sep 12, 2025 | Charlie Kirk, Counterfactuals, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Political violence in America, Politics and Healthcare, Remembering 9/11, Social Determinants of Health, The 2024 Presidential Election
September 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Much of this letter, which begins in remembrance of 9/11, including comments about previous assassinations in our nation’s history, was written before the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, the very effective and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 5, 2025 | a personal testimony, amyloidosis, Burnout, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, DEI, Featured Post, Gun violence as the number one cause of pediatric deaths, healthcare under Trump, Make America Healthy Again, Moral Injury, out of pocket healthcare costs, Politics and Healthcare, RFK Jr., Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator John Barrasso, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, Trump's attack on medical research
September 5, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Trump Chaos Puts Clouds on the Future of Healthcare in America The disturbing circus at the Senate Finance committee hearing yesterday featured verbal conflict between the Secretary of Health and Human Services,...
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 8, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Burnout, concierge care, CVS, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Independent practice of mid-level clinicians, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, MassGeneral Brigham, Medicaid, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Texas attempt to gerrymander for House control, The Voting Rights Act of 1965
August 8, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Struggling And It Is Likely To Get Worse Before Getting Better This week, there are some significant anniversaries. It has been 80 years since we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more...