by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 27, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, ACA, Annual State of the Union address, Benefits of the ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Markets, Kleptocracy, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Robert Kennedy Jr., SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Trump's “Great Healthcare Plan.”, Trump's lies
February 27, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Do You Think Trump Can “Fix” Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Access? I delayed my usual weekly writing process this week because I was interested in hearing whether the president might spend some time talking...
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 | Sep 19, 2025 | Activism in Healthcare, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Continuous Improvement, David Brooks, Enlightenment, Featured Post, MAGA, MAHA, Polarization in America, Robert Kennedy Jr., Russell Shorto, The Era of Dark Passions, The Island at the Center of the World
September 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Confusion In Make America Healthy Again I have read a few pundits who have pointed out that President Trump understands our problems, but he is offering the wrong solutions. I doubt that turning our backs...
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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 13, 2025 | Adam Hochschild, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Big Beautiful Bill, Deportations, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Jennifer Rubin, MAGA, Medicaid, National Guard and Marines in LA, No Kings protest, Robert Kennedy Jr., Saving Democracy, Senator Alex Padilla, Social Determinants of Health, Terry Moran
June 13, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, It Is Hard To Know What Comes Next And How It Will End Since January 21st, there has been a new depressing surprise almost every day, or at least every week, and many of these surprises have a direct or indirect...
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...