by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 30, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, a "blue wave"?, Access to care, affordability, compromised trauma care at Dartmouth, DEI, Drew Altman, Featured Post, impact of chronic disease on healthcare costs, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, post election fears, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's cruelty
October 30, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The Wait Is Almost Over Dear reader, if you are tired of reading about my anxieties for the future of healthcare in the run-up to the midterm elections, I apologize. I must admit that, despite most political...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 24, 2025 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, DEI, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Featured Post, Government Shutdown, Henry Olsen, MAGA, No Kings protest, non profit healthcare institutions, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Rand Paul, Sister Irene Kraus, Social Determinants of Health, Speaker Mike Johnson, Stephen Lipstein, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
October 24, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Sharing A Little Common Ground With Some on the Right, and a Few Positive Aspects of the Corporatization of Healthcare, As We Endure the “Shutdown.” In several editions of this weekly letter during...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 5, 2025 | a personal testimony, amyloidosis, Burnout, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, DEI, Featured Post, Gun violence as the number one cause of pediatric deaths, healthcare under Trump, Make America Healthy Again, Moral Injury, out of pocket healthcare costs, Politics and Healthcare, RFK Jr., Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator John Barrasso, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, Trump's attack on medical research
September 5, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Trump Chaos Puts Clouds on the Future of Healthcare in America The disturbing circus at the Senate Finance committee hearing yesterday featured verbal conflict between the Secretary of Health and Human Services,...
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 | Jun 27, 2025 | A personal history, DEI, Dr. Crystal Cené, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Lee Younger, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Dr. Paul Batalden, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Inequality in Healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
June 27, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On A Lifetime Of Practice And The Importance of DEI To Our Health This coming Tuesday will be the fiftieth anniversary of my first day of post-training medical practice. I was quite nervous as I walked...
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...
