by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 28, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, Access to care, Barriers to benefits, cost of healthcare, Donald Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare equity, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicaid work requirements, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, Pete Buttigieg, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, rural healthcare, SNAP
August 28, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Are Advocates For Better Healthcare Part of an Effective Majority? There are about nine weeks until the crucial 2026 midterm elections on November 3rd. If you want to know the exact number of weeks, days, and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 14, 2026 | ACA, Access to care, cost of healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare affordability, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare Outcomes, Healthcare Quality, Implicit Bias, Medicaid, Politics and Healthcare, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, state healthcare rankings
August 14, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking at the Worst and the Best States For Healthcare When I was in practice, my office mailbox was flooded with “throwaway” medical journals such as “Hospital Practice” and “Medical Economics.” It was pretty...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 24, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, 2028 elections, ACA, Access to care, co-opitition, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, Iran War, Jamelle Bouie, Physician engagement, Quintuple Aim, The Coming Healthcare Revolution, The Public Option
July 24, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Will Physicians Engage In the Effort to Achieve Healthcare Equity? Last week’s letter reviewed The Coming Healthcare Revolution: 10 Forces That Will Cure America’s Health Crisis, written by David W. Johnson, a...
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 | 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 23, 2026 | "sick care" in primary care, A personal history, Access to care, Ambulatory practice, chronic disease management, Dr. Cato Baxter Wiseman, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare Quality, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, the "good" doctor, the burden of quality metrics on PCPs, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The Triple Aim
January 23, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Searching For the Relationships That Provide Professional Fulfillment My mother had many interests and was an “early adopter.” She had a “Tandy Computer” from Radio Shack in the early eighties before moving on to...
