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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 5, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, 2028 elections, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Medical School, Medicare For All, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, The future of healthcare under Trump
June 5, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Paul Krugman, Round 3 This week’s letter completes a three-part review of Paul Krugman’s series on the potential for healthcare to be a defining issue in the 2026 mid-term elections and the 2028 presidential...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 22, 2026 | A history of federal support to medical education, A story from my life, AI in healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Goodbye to Steven Cobert, Google's Gemini, medical education, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Universal Access, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
May 22, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, If We Hope To Move Ahead Someday, We Need To Know How We Got Here. Last week’s letter was a bit of a downer. I reported that the Wellesley Offices of Atrius Health had told my wife that she needed to go elsewhere to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 8, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, Benefits of the ACA, Featured Post, healthcare under Trump, How other nations achieve univarsal access, Inequality in Healthcare, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Our healthcare costs compared to other advanced nations, Paul Krugman, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, Universal Access
May 8, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, How We Got The Mess We Have My letter to you last week was a review of Paul Krugman’s Substack letter of April 19, which he published as the first installment of a series he is writing about our healthcare. That first...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 6, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, Child Tax Credit, Family Health Project, Featured Post, Iran War, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Kearsarge Regional Ecumenical Ministries, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Pete Hegseth, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Basic Income
March 6, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, I’m Trying To Look Beyond A Tough Week for the World I am sure that I was not the only person who was dismayed on awakening Saturday morning. As I strapped on my iWatch, which is usually one of the first things I do...
