by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 27, 2026 | Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, hospital closings in rural America, Iran War, Jamelle Bouie, narcissistic sociopath, New England Journal of Medicine, Politics and Healthcare, President Trump, private equity purchases in healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Steward Health Care, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, VUCA
March 27, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Private Equity in Healthcare Is the Wrong Road to High-Quality, Universal, Equitable, Affordable, and Sustainable Healthcare. I must remind myself every week that the intended purpose of this weekly letter is to...
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 | Mar 21, 2025 | Chat GPT, Constitutional Crisis, Diversity Equity Inclusion, DOGE, Featured Post, Implicit Bias, MAGA, Maggie Haberman, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, President Trump, Project 2025, Social Determinants of Health, the equal protection clause, The future of healthcare under Trump, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
March 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, A Constitutional Crisis? And Other Practical And Moral Injuries Most presidents use the “honeymoon” of the first one hundred days of a new term to get much of their campaign agenda translated into laws that might...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 22, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Culture, culture wars, E.J. Dione, Empathy, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Polarization in America, President Trump, Resilience, Social Determinants of Health, The election of Joe Biden, the president's lies
I have had the feeling, and I know that it has been shared by many of you, that 2020 was the most difficult year that I can remember. Against that universal feeling, or perhaps because of it, The Washington Post published an editorial last week entitled “20...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 13, 2020 | "Joy in Medicine?", Balint Groups, Burnout, burnout and professional fulfillment, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Coles and the "Call of Service", Essential Workers, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", Joe Biden, President Trump, professional fulfillment, The 2020 election
November 13, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, An Introduction To A Remarkable Book I have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Two things that I have anticipated have happened simultaneously. First, the election is sort of behind us. If...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 3, 2020 | Build Back Better, election scenarios, Health in America, Jennifer Rubin, Joe Biden, Joe Biden and the Future, Martin Luther King Jr, President Trump, The 2020 election, the president's lies, The Triple Aim
Almost 100 million votes have been cast before election day. We are told that the turnout for this election will be huge. We are also told that Republicans know that anything that reduces turnout increases their chances of winning. I am OK with their enjoyment...