by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 9, 2026 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, Community Action Agencies, David Brooks, Featured Post, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Project 2025, Reinhold Niebuhr, Seeking Shalom, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, Trump chaos, Venezuela
January 9, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, In the Midst of Chaos We Can Focus On Community Should we say that 2026 is off to a strange start? Our president is now “running” Venezuela. There is adventure on the high seas as we “capture” oil freighters with...
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 | Aug 29, 2025 | Arlie Russell Hochschild, Cultural Determinants of Health, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Emotional Determinants of Health, Environmental Determinants of Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, Illiberalism, MAGA, MAHA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Project 2025, RFK Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
August 29, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Recently, I have spent a considerable amount of time and words writing about the illiberal tendencies of our president, and how he appears to be the tool of what I would label as the Project 2025 cabal. Among his many...
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 | 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...
