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 | Feb 27, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, ACA, Annual State of the Union address, Benefits of the ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Markets, Kleptocracy, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Robert Kennedy Jr., SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Trump's “Great Healthcare Plan.”, Trump's lies
February 27, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Do You Think Trump Can “Fix” Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Access? I delayed my usual weekly writing process this week because I was interested in hearing whether the president might spend some time talking...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 1, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, 2028 elections, Benefits of the ACA, DEI, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MAGA, Medicaid, Morning in America, narcissism, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, President Trump, Project 2025, Republican enablers, Social Determinants of Health, Trump induced PTSD, Trump's lies
August 1, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Feeling Kicked To The Curb In the aftermath of the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), a flood of articles has emerged attempting to forecast the damage to healthcare that will occur, at a minimum, over...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 11, 2024 | a woman's right to make reproductive health choices, Abortion, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Donald Trump, election scenarios, Featured Post, Global Warming, Healthcare Policy, Incremental healthcare improvement, Kamala Harris, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, The 2024 Presidential Election, The Triple Aim, transformational change
October 11, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Incrementalism Has Replaced Transformation As A Strategy To Improve Healthcare If you are a regular reader of these Friday letters, you know that I have bemoaned the fact that unlike 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 27, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Benefits of the ACA, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Retrograde Mercury, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The threat to women's reproductive rights
In one week the retrograde Mercury will be over, Election Day will be behind us, and we will enter the next phase of uncertainty in the process of electing the president. The retrograde has been tough on me these last few weeks. There have been several...
