by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 16, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Medicare Advantage, Politics and Healthcare, Six Domains of Quality, Value Based Reimbursement
October 16, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Millions Lose Their Medicare Advantage Plans, and Many Will Pay More Yesterday, October 15, marked the start of the Medicare open enrollment period, which runs until December 7. Although I am a retired physician...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 9, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, cost of healthcare, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Dr. Micah Johnson, El Niño, Featured Post, Healthcare affordability, Healthcare as a Right, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, Medicare For All, out of pocket healthcare costs, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Romneycare
October 9, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, “Medicare-for-All” Is An Active Issue Many of you who have been thinking about universal healthcare for a long time probably accept that the ACA (Obamacare) was inspired by the 2005 Massachusetts...
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 | 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 14, 2026 | ACA, Access to care, cost of healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare affordability, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare Outcomes, Healthcare Quality, Implicit Bias, Medicaid, Politics and Healthcare, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, state healthcare rankings
August 14, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking at the Worst and the Best States For Healthcare When I was in practice, my office mailbox was flooded with “throwaway” medical journals such as “Hospital Practice” and “Medical Economics.” It was pretty...
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...
