by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 24, 2025 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, DEI, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Featured Post, Government Shutdown, Henry Olsen, MAGA, No Kings protest, non profit healthcare institutions, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Rand Paul, Sister Irene Kraus, Social Determinants of Health, Speaker Mike Johnson, Stephen Lipstein, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
October 24, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Sharing A Little Common Ground With Some on the Right, and a Few Positive Aspects of the Corporatization of Healthcare, As We Endure the “Shutdown.” In several editions of this weekly letter during...
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 | Feb 28, 2025 | ACA, Billionaires in Trump's Administration, DEI, Drew Altman, Elon Musk, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, House passage of tax and spending bill, MAGA, Medicaid, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Speaker Mike Johnson, The Triple Aim
February 28, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, A Reverse Robin Hood? Will Cuts In Benefits For The Poor Finance Tax Cuts For The Rich? Last week I had the revelation that I have a lot of conservative DNA that has been hiding within my desire to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 17, 2025 | "concepts of a plan", Abortion, ACA, Access, American Oligarchs, amyloidosis, Billionaires in Trump's Administration, ChatGPT, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Quality, healthcare under Trump, insurance denials, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, R.F.K., Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Trump's Cabinet Appointments, Willem Lange
January 17, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, It’s a New Year, a New Government, and a Very New Day Coming The New Year is slowly building some momentum. As there is increasing certainty about who will populate the Trump cabinet, we will have more clarity...