by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 30, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, a "blue wave"?, Access to care, affordability, compromised trauma care at Dartmouth, DEI, Drew Altman, Featured Post, impact of chronic disease on healthcare costs, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, post election fears, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's cruelty
October 30, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The Wait Is Almost Over Dear reader, if you are tired of reading about my anxieties for the future of healthcare in the run-up to the midterm elections, I apologize. I must admit that, despite most political...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 23, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, affordability, Christian Nationalism, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Empathy, Featured Post, Jennifer Rubin, Kleptocracy, MAGA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, Republican billionaire megadonors, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's undermining of healthcare
October 23, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Millions Lose Healthcare Coverage; Millions More Are Underinsured: Do we suffer from a national decline in empathy as a partial explanation for the deterioration of the Social Determinants of Health? It is eleven...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 2, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, Democratic Senate Possibilities in the 2026 midterm elections, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Dr. El-Sayed notes our national epidemic of insecurity, Featured Post, political empathy as rx for the national epidemic of insecurity, Social Determinants of Health
October 2, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Can Democrats Win the Senate? And Getting To Know Dr. El-Sayed As healthcare is sort of on the ballot for the 2026 midterm election, and will certainly be a big issue in the Democratic presidential primaries in...
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 | Jul 17, 2026 | ACA, AI in healthcare, ChatGPT, Consumerism in Healthcare, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, David W. Johnson, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Inc., Paul Krugman, Paul Kusserow, Politics and Healthcare, Quintuple Aim, Social Determinants of Health, The Coming Healthcare Revolution, The Public Option, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, workforce issues
July 17, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Could Positive Change Be Possible Through Market Forces? On my birthday and at Christmas, I frequently get bow ties and books as gifts. I wasn’t expecting anything for my birthday this year because there was no...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 10, 2026 | ChatGPT, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, No Kings protest, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Our 250th National Birthday, physician signers of the Declaration of Independence, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Declaration of Independence, The Triple Aim, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency, Trump's undermining of healthcare
July 10, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Physicians and The Declaration of Independence: Redux When I signed off on my second attempt at last week’s letter discussing the participation of physicians who signed the Declaration of Independence, I thought it...
