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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 19, 2025 | A personal history, ACA, Advent, Center Addressing Rural Health Equity (CARHE), Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, FEED Kearsarge, food banks, food Insecurity, Hunger in America, Kearsarge Food Hub, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Russell Vaught, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health
December 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Remembering During the Holidays That Not Everyone Has Enough to Eat, and Trying to Do Something About It. “Food insecurity” is a good enough phrase, but my take is that it is a clinical euphemism that takes the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 14, 2025 | 2026 midterm elections, ACA, ACA market subsidies, Bernie Sanders, Featured Post, food Insecurity, MAGA, Medicaid, narcissistic sociopath, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Government Shutdown, Trump's "concept of a plan" for healthcare
November 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Mixed Feelings About the End of the Shutdown For over forty days, the shutdown was painful and, at its worst, hard to rationalize, as it was always doubtful that the Republicans would ever agree to the primary...
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 | 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...
