by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 13, 2026 | A personal history, BEMA, Christian Nationalism, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Four Pillars of Medical Ethics, healthcare under Trump, hermeneutics, John Fugelsang, MAGA, Marty Solomon, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, Separation of Church and Hate, The Triple Aim
February 13, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The Benefits of Four Pillars For the past couple of years, on many of my walks, I have been listening to a theological podcast, BEMA Discipleship, offered by a very entertaining and knowledgeable minister who...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 6, 2026 | A Super Bowl story, Conservative Values, Culture, David Brooks, Edmund Burke, Featured Post, Garrison Keillor, healthcare under Trump, hyperindividualism, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Liberalism, Polarization in America, Political "norms", Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Thomas Hobbes
February 6, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Things Change I was surprised, shocked, and briefly in despair last weekend when I followed my routine of reviewing the opinion pieces in the New York Times and discovered that, after 22 years, David Brooks had...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 30, 2026 | "concepts of a plan", 2026 midterm elections, ACA market subsidies, Access to care, AMA vs. universal coverage, Bernie Sanders, David Blumenthal, Dr. Ashish Jha, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, healthcare finance, Life Expectancy, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, RFK Jr.
January 30, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The High Cost of Care Remains an Unsolved Problem For All of Us For many years, there has been too much uncertainty about the future of American healthcare. Even those of us who have coverage that should give us...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 16, 2026 | A personal history, Access to care, Ambar La Forgia, Atrius Health, concierge care, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Nicholas Kristof, Optum Health, Politics and Healthcare, Primary Care, private equity purchases in healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The Triple Aim, Urgent Care Clinics
January 16, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About Today From the Perspective of The Past Throughout my years as a clinician and later as CEO, our practice offered convenient urgent care during regular business hours as well as evenings and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 2, 2026 | 120th Congress, 2026 midterm elections, ACA, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health
2 January 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back At ‘25 With Regrets, Looking Forward to ‘26 With Hope Most Sunday mornings, my wife and I record CBS Sunday Morning hosted by veteran TV journalist Jane Pauley. We often don’t listen to it until later...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 19, 2025 | A personal history, ACA, Advent, Center Addressing Rural Health Equity (CARHE), Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, FEED Kearsarge, food banks, food Insecurity, Hunger in America, Kearsarge Food Hub, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Russell Vaught, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health
December 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Remembering During the Holidays That Not Everyone Has Enough to Eat, and Trying to Do Something About It. “Food insecurity” is a good enough phrase, but my take is that it is a clinical euphemism that takes the...