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 | Feb 20, 2026 | A story from my life, Authoritarianism, community, David Brooks, Derek Thompson, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Bernard Lown, Dr. Eugene Braunwald, Dr. George Thorne, Dr. Henry Asbury Christian, Dr. Lewis Dexter, Dr. Richard Gorlin, Dr. Soma Weiss, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, George Packer, MAGA, nativism, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Politics and Healthcare, Reinhold Niebuhr, self-interest, Social Determinants of Health, status quo, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness:, What Made Trump Possible?
February 20, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking For The Most Effective Approach To A Better Future I keep hoping that my reading will help me better understand our times and reassure me that we will eventually return to our efforts to improve the...
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 | Jan 23, 2026 | "sick care" in primary care, A personal history, Access to care, Ambulatory practice, chronic disease management, Dr. Cato Baxter Wiseman, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare Quality, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, the "good" doctor, the burden of quality metrics on PCPs, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The Triple Aim
January 23, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Searching For the Relationships That Provide Professional Fulfillment My mother had many interests and was an “early adopter.” She had a “Tandy Computer” from Radio Shack in the early eighties before moving on to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 16, 2026 | A personal history, Access to care, Ambar La Forgia, Atrius Health, concierge care, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Nicholas Kristof, Optum Health, Politics and Healthcare, Primary Care, private equity purchases in healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The Triple Aim, Urgent Care Clinics
January 16, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About Today From the Perspective of The Past Throughout my years as a clinician and later as CEO, our practice offered convenient urgent care during regular business hours as well as evenings and...
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...
