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 | 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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 28, 2025 | abundance, deprofessionalization of nursing, Dunning-Kruger effect, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Nursing Shortages, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, our critical dependence on nursing, Poverty and healthcare, Thanksgiving thoughts
November 28, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts at Thanksgiving About Nursing and All That I Am Thankful for and Concerned About in Our Fragile System of Care I have much for which to be thankful. Today, my belly is still a little stretched from the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 14, 2025 | 2026 midterm elections, ACA, ACA market subsidies, Bernie Sanders, Featured Post, food Insecurity, MAGA, Medicaid, narcissistic sociopath, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Government Shutdown, Trump's "concept of a plan" for healthcare
November 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Mixed Feelings About the End of the Shutdown For over forty days, the shutdown was painful and, at its worst, hard to rationalize, as it was always doubtful that the Republicans would ever agree to the primary...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 1, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, 2028 elections, Benefits of the ACA, DEI, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MAGA, Medicaid, Morning in America, narcissism, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, President Trump, Project 2025, Republican enablers, Social Determinants of Health, Trump induced PTSD, Trump's lies
August 1, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Feeling Kicked To The Curb In the aftermath of the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), a flood of articles has emerged attempting to forecast the damage to healthcare that will occur, at a minimum, over...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 20, 2025 | Big Beautiful Bill, Children in poverty, Family Health Project, Featured Post, FQHCs, Joe Knowles, Kelley Journey, No Kings protest, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency, Trump's military parade, Universal Basic Income
June 20, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Moving From Distress to Action Where were you last Saturday? Were you among the 5 million neighbors in all fifty states who showed up to vote with your presence against the policies and performance of our president?...
