by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 8, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Burnout, concierge care, CVS, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Independent practice of mid-level clinicians, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, MassGeneral Brigham, Medicaid, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Texas attempt to gerrymander for House control, The Voting Rights Act of 1965
August 8, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Struggling And It Is Likely To Get Worse Before Getting Better This week, there are some significant anniversaries. It has been 80 years since we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more...
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 | Jul 18, 2025 | America's defective social safety net, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Donald Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, MAGA, Medicaid, narcissistic sociopath, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Republican enablers, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
July 18, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Coming Healthcare Crisis in the Aftermath of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and Other Concerns I suspect that it is very likely that long after Donald Trump shuffles off this mortal coil, historians will be debating...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 13, 2025 | Adam Hochschild, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Big Beautiful Bill, Deportations, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Jennifer Rubin, MAGA, Medicaid, National Guard and Marines in LA, No Kings protest, Robert Kennedy Jr., Saving Democracy, Senator Alex Padilla, Social Determinants of Health, Terry Moran
June 13, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, It Is Hard To Know What Comes Next And How It Will End Since January 21st, there has been a new depressing surprise almost every day, or at least every week, and many of these surprises have a direct or indirect...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 6, 2025 | ACA, Big Beautiful Bill, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Elon Musk, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare equity, J.D. Vance, MAGA, Medicaid, Patrick Deneen, Peter Bloch, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's principles
June 6, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Lately, I’ve Been Upset Every Day The last four and a half months, since President Trump resumed the presidency, have been very stressful for me. I assume that the anxiety and apprehension that I have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 9, 2025 | David Brooks, DOGE, Dr. Atul Gawande, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's inept administration
May 9, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, There Are Increasing Challenges to Practice and Medical Research Until the 21st of January, the challenge to medical practice and research was how to make faster progress. The last eighty years have been a journey of...