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 | 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 | May 16, 2025 | Big Beautiful Bill, Featured Post, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, healthcare under Trump, Martin Luther King Jr, Medicaid, Moral Ambition, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Rutgar Bregman, Senator Josh Hawley, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Trump’s tariffs, Universal Basic Income
May 16, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The “One Big Beautiful Bill” and What It Might Do to Healthcare It has been another week of surprises in our ongoing adventure of the second Trump presidency. Was it a miracle or the “art of the deal” that led to the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 17, 2025 | "concepts of a plan", Abortion, ACA, Access, American Oligarchs, amyloidosis, Billionaires in Trump's Administration, ChatGPT, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Quality, healthcare under Trump, insurance denials, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, R.F.K., Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Trump's Cabinet Appointments, Willem Lange
January 17, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, It’s a New Year, a New Government, and a Very New Day Coming The New Year is slowly building some momentum. As there is increasing certainty about who will populate the Trump cabinet, we will have more clarity...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 27, 2024 | A personal history, ChatGPT, Dr. Eric Reinhardt, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Dr.Zeev Neuwirth, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Martin Luther King Jr, political determinants of health, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The 2024 Presidential Election, The Triple Aim
September 27, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Exploring The Structural Determinants of Health When I became a healthcare CEO in February 2008, I was more focused on what happened within our organization and our relationships with our affiliated hospitals...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 2, 2024 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Abortion, Bernie Sanders, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare equity, march-in-rights, Martin Luther King Jr, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, The 2024 Presidential Election, the Harris campaign for president
August 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, What Would Kamala Harris Do For Healthcare If Elected? For almost two weeks now newspapers, podcasts, and television commentators have been busy trying to present Kamala Harris to many potential voters, especially...
