by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 13, 2026 | A personal history, BEMA, Christian Nationalism, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Four Pillars of Medical Ethics, healthcare under Trump, hermeneutics, John Fugelsang, MAGA, Marty Solomon, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, Separation of Church and Hate, The Triple Aim
February 13, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The Benefits of Four Pillars For the past couple of years, on many of my walks, I have been listening to a theological podcast, BEMA Discipleship, offered by a very entertaining and knowledgeable minister who...
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 30, 2026 | "concepts of a plan", 2026 midterm elections, ACA market subsidies, Access to care, AMA vs. universal coverage, Bernie Sanders, David Blumenthal, Dr. Ashish Jha, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, healthcare finance, Life Expectancy, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, RFK Jr.
January 30, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The High Cost of Care Remains an Unsolved Problem For All of Us For many years, there has been too much uncertainty about the future of American healthcare. Even those of us who have coverage that should give us...
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...
