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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 11, 2025 | amyloidosis, Dartmouth Health, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health and Human Services, Politics and Healthcare, Republican enablers, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, Trump's narcissism, Trump's tariffs
April 11, 2025 Dear Interested Readers. Warning! This has been such a turbulent week for the president, the country, economies of every country in the world, and healthcare here in America that I have needed to do three rewrites. There may be a few...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 4, 2025 | Featured Post, food banks, Liberation Day, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, Republican enablers, Robert Kennedy Jr., SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's tariffs
April 4, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Liberation Day? I did not have the stomach to watch President Trump’s pronouncement of his tariff determinations during a gathering of his sycophants in a Rose Garden ceremony late Wednesday afternoon. My guess is...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 28, 2025 | Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Health and Human Services, Healthcare equity, J.D. Vance, Jeff Goldberg, Life Expectancy in America, Medicaid, Medicare, Pete Hegseth, Political "norms", Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
March 28, 2025 Dear Interesed Readers, Weird, Confusing, and Ultimately Very Problematic “You can’t make this stuff up” is one of the most overused and tired clichés in our language, but it has popped into my mind almost every day during the first two...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 21, 2025 | Chat GPT, Constitutional Crisis, Diversity Equity Inclusion, DOGE, Featured Post, Implicit Bias, MAGA, Maggie Haberman, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, President Trump, Project 2025, Social Determinants of Health, the equal protection clause, The future of healthcare under Trump, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
March 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, A Constitutional Crisis? And Other Practical And Moral Injuries Most presidents use the “honeymoon” of the first one hundred days of a new term to get much of their campaign agenda translated into laws that might...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 14, 2025 | administrative harm, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Burnout, Charles Handy, ChatGPT, Diversity Equity Inclusion, DOGE, Elon Musk, Featured Post, Federalism, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, MAGA, Quadruple Aim, Social Determinants of Health, Subsidiarity
March 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Radical Versus Rational Change Donald Trump roared into office claiming that he had a mandate for radical changes in government structure and policy that his supporters believed would “make America great again.” He...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 7, 2025 | DEI, DOGE, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare disparities, healthcare under Trump, Jennifer Rubin, MAGA, narcissistic sociopath, Political "norms", Project 2025, right-wing woke, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's lies, Trump's March 4th speech to Congress, Trump’s tariffs
March 7, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Our Healthcare Is Threatened By “Right-wing Woke” I wish I was creative enough to have coined the phrase “right-wing woke,” but the honor belongs to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. I knew that he had “hit...
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 | Feb 21, 2025 | Biases, Conservative Values, Continuous Improvement, culture wars, David Brooks, DEI, Elon Musk, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, intersectionality, Liberalism, Life Expectancy, MAGA, Medicaid, Politics and Healthcare, Populism, Principles of Stupidity, Progressive Values, Robert Kennedy Jr., SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
February 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Maybe Trump’s Radical Ways Are Revealing That I Am A Conservative Last Thursday I was delighted to see that David Brooks had a new opinion piece in the New York Times. His column usually comes out every...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 14, 2025 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, Atrius Health, ChatGPT, chronic disease management, Computers In Healthcare, Diversity Equity Inclusion, employed physicians, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, infrastructure inadequacies, MAGA, Moral Injury, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Primary Care Has Changed Since 1975 For several weeks, I have felt a need to write about primary care. When I try to write to express my concerns about primary care, I am derailed by yet another outrageous event...
