by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 7, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, Christopher Koller, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Healthcare affordability, Healthcare equity, Listening to Your Life, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicare, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, social services safety net, Trump's undermining of healthcare, Universal Access
August 7, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back With Appreciation For What Has Been Accomplished, and Looking Forward With Concerns After I had “put down my pen” on last week’s letter, I read Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack post for July...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 17, 2023 | A story from my life, David Brooks, Dr. Harris Berman, Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Dr. Walter Murphy, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Glenn Hackbarth, Hamas, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare Mergers, Listening to Your Life, Pilgrim Health Care, Pluralism, Point 32 Health, Social Determinants of Health, The conflict between Israel and Hamas, The Triple Aim, Tufts Health Plan
November 17, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Mergers Change Everything The header today is a photo of a piece of commemorative glassware that was presented to each of the participants in the long discussions and negotiations that resulted in the merger of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 21, 2023 | a personal testimony, Climate Crisis, David Brooks, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Kim Stanley Robinson, Life Expectancy in America, Listening to Your Life, Social Determinants of Health, The Book of Charlie, The theory of everything
July 21, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Let Go and Hang On If You Can I recently passed my 78th birthday. Because of many factors like the pandemic, the fentanyl epidemic, increased gun violence, and probably somewhat due to increasing difficulty with...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 26, 2022 | A story from my life, Biden's forgiveness of some student loans, Conservative Values, Continuous Improvement, COVID, David Brooks, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Progressive Values, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life
August 26, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What is the Story of Your Motivation? As you might have noticed if you are a regular reader of these epistles, I am a fan of David Brooks. That might puzzle you since I wear a liberal to progressive badge, and...
