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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 27, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, ACA, Annual State of the Union address, Benefits of the ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Markets, Kleptocracy, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Robert Kennedy Jr., SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Trump's “Great Healthcare Plan.”, Trump's lies
February 27, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Do You Think Trump Can “Fix” Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Access? I delayed my usual weekly writing process this week because I was interested in hearing whether the president might spend some time talking...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 9, 2026 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, Community Action Agencies, David Brooks, Featured Post, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Project 2025, Reinhold Niebuhr, Seeking Shalom, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, Trump chaos, Venezuela
January 9, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, In the Midst of Chaos We Can Focus On Community Should we say that 2026 is off to a strange start? Our president is now “running” Venezuela. There is adventure on the high seas as we “capture” oil freighters with...