by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 25, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, aging and mortality, amyloidosis, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, misleading campaign ads, my wife's CVA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Rick Pildes, Sarah Isgur
September 25, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Election Anxieties and Other Issues of Interest It’s less than six weeks until the midterm elections, and I am getting very nervous. The surprise of 2016 was a trauma from which I have never completely...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 18, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, access issues for those with access, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Quality, Moral Injury, my wife's CVA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Timeliness as a component of quality, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
September 18, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Unraveling Quality This week, as usual, I avoided watching the Emmy Awards extravaganza on television. I don’t exactly know why I don’t enjoy watching all the self-congratulatory entertainment awards ceremonies...
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 | 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...
