by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 31, 2026 | A personal history of social change, ACA market subsidies, Bryan Stevenson, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Outcomes, Life Expectancy in America, Martin Luther King Jr, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Our 250th National Birthday, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Slavery, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Trump's undermining of healthcare, Where Do We Go From Here?
July 31, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The Importance of DEI To The Future of Our Nation’s Health Of all the things the president has done that have damaged healthcare, none seems worse to me over the long term than the damage to efforts to improve...
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 | Jul 17, 2026 | ACA, AI in healthcare, ChatGPT, Consumerism in Healthcare, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, David W. Johnson, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Inc., Paul Krugman, Paul Kusserow, Politics and Healthcare, Quintuple Aim, Social Determinants of Health, The Coming Healthcare Revolution, The Public Option, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, workforce issues
July 17, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Could Positive Change Be Possible Through Market Forces? On my birthday and at Christmas, I frequently get bow ties and books as gifts. I wasn’t expecting anything for my birthday this year because there was no...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 10, 2026 | ChatGPT, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, No Kings protest, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Our 250th National Birthday, physician signers of the Declaration of Independence, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Declaration of Independence, The Triple Aim, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency, Trump's undermining of healthcare
July 10, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Physicians and The Declaration of Independence: Redux When I signed off on my second attempt at last week’s letter discussing the participation of physicians who signed the Declaration of Independence, I thought it...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 3, 2026 | A story from my life, ChatGPT, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Dr. Matthew Thornton, Featured Post, Fourth of July, My mistake, Our 250th National Birthday, Physicians as politicians and public leaders, Vaccination of the Continental Army of George Washington
July 3, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Oops! I goofed! An unfinished version of this letter appeared in your email on Wednesday. Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was evidence of intellectual decline. For whatever reason, I inadvertently released a rough...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 26, 2026 | 4th of July, A personal history, Atrius Health, Burnout, Capitalism, ChatGPT, Consolidation in healthcare, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Dr. Louise Aronson, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Loren Adler, Mass General Brigham, Moral Injury, New England Journal of Medicine, Partners Health Care, The Triple Aim
June 26, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, When Will Doctors Take A Stand? Exactly a year ago, The New England Journal of Medicine began a remarkable series in its “Perspectives” section entitled The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care. There was a companion...
