by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 20, 2025 | Big Beautiful Bill, Children in poverty, Family Health Project, Featured Post, FQHCs, Joe Knowles, Kelley Journey, No Kings protest, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency, Trump's military parade, Universal Basic Income
June 20, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Moving From Distress to Action Where were you last Saturday? Were you among the 5 million neighbors in all fifty states who showed up to vote with your presence against the policies and performance of our president?...
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 | Jun 6, 2025 | ACA, Big Beautiful Bill, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Elon Musk, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare equity, J.D. Vance, MAGA, Medicaid, Patrick Deneen, Peter Bloch, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's principles
June 6, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Lately, I’ve Been Upset Every Day The last four and a half months, since President Trump resumed the presidency, have been very stressful for me. I assume that the anxiety and apprehension that I have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 30, 2025 | America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, ChatGPT, Diversity Equity Inclusion, DOGE, Featured Post, First Amendment implications for medical practice, Harvard "Strike" 1969, Make America Healthy Again, Making America Great Again, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's attempts to extort universities
May 30, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Education, Research, Academic Freedom, and the Social Determinants of Health Of all the things our president has done, which are very difficult to understand, nothing has seemed more counterproductive to me than his...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 23, 2025 | Activism in Healthcare, Burnout, Dr. Alice Chen, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Featured Post, FQHCs, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, healthcare under Trump, hospital closings in rural America, Medicaid, Moral Injury, Senator Bill Cassidy, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
May 23, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The New England Journal Comes Through As you may have noticed, I sometimes reference New England Journal of Medicine articles. Honestly, I have been disappointed by the relative silence of the Journal about the...
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...
