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 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 | 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 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...
