by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 7, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, Christopher Koller, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Healthcare affordability, Healthcare equity, Listening to Your Life, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicare, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, social services safety net, Trump's undermining of healthcare, Universal Access
August 7, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back With Appreciation For What Has Been Accomplished, and Looking Forward With Concerns After I had “put down my pen” on last week’s letter, I read Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack post for July...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 5, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, 2028 elections, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Medical School, Medicare For All, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, The future of healthcare under Trump
June 5, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Paul Krugman, Round 3 This week’s letter completes a three-part review of Paul Krugman’s series on the potential for healthcare to be a defining issue in the 2026 mid-term elections and the 2028 presidential...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 15, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, Access to care, Andrew Weinstein, Atrius Health, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, healthcare under Trump, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, What we have with President Trump, workforce issues
May 15, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, A Sunnami of Change My wife spends a lot of time on social media. While scrolling through Instagram this week, she came across a quote from Andrew Weinstein that sums up the disgust so many of us feel as we...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 8, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, Benefits of the ACA, Featured Post, healthcare under Trump, How other nations achieve univarsal access, Inequality in Healthcare, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Our healthcare costs compared to other advanced nations, Paul Krugman, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, Universal Access
May 8, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, How We Got The Mess We Have My letter to you last week was a review of Paul Krugman’s Substack letter of April 19, which he published as the first installment of a series he is writing about our healthcare. That first...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 1, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, A personal history, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Dean Robert Ebert, Dr. Charles Magraw, Dr. Eugene Braunwald, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Paul Solomon, Featured Post, John Russell, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, The Commonwealth Fund, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
May 1, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Can We Get To Universal Access To Care Without Big Changes? Much of my free time and energy for the past two weekends has been spent in Maine around the birth of our newest grandson. He arrived at Maine Medical Center...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 20, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, a personal testimony, A. E. Housman, ACA market subsidies, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Iran War, Peter Baker, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's anger
March 20, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Healthcare In The Midst of the President’s Chaos and Anger As a White House correspondent for the New York Times since 2008, and for 20 years before that for the Washington Post, Peter Baker has been a close...
