by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 29, 2026 | AI in healthcare, democracy versus illiberalism, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Robert Wachter, Dualism, Empire v. Shalom, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Kleptocracy, Liberalism, Marina Ovsyannikova, Non Zero, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare, Yuval Noah Harari
May 29, 2026 Dear Interested Readers Looking Past Policy Failures To Human Nature My letter to you two weeks ago revealed that my wife’s PCP had retired and that the practice was unable to provide her with a new PCP. She had originally been assigned to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 22, 2026 | A history of federal support to medical education, A story from my life, AI in healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Goodbye to Steven Cobert, Google's Gemini, medical education, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Universal Access, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
May 22, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, If We Hope To Move Ahead Someday, We Need To Know How We Got Here. Last week’s letter was a bit of a downer. I reported that the Wellesley Offices of Atrius Health had told my wife that she needed to go elsewhere to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 8, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, Benefits of the ACA, Featured Post, healthcare under Trump, How other nations achieve univarsal access, Inequality in Healthcare, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Our healthcare costs compared to other advanced nations, Paul Krugman, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, Universal Access
May 8, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, How We Got The Mess We Have My letter to you last week was a review of Paul Krugman’s Substack letter of April 19, which he published as the first installment of a series he is writing about our healthcare. That first...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 1, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, A personal history, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Dean Robert Ebert, Dr. Charles Magraw, Dr. Eugene Braunwald, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Paul Solomon, Featured Post, John Russell, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, The Commonwealth Fund, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
May 1, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Can We Get To Universal Access To Care Without Big Changes? Much of my free time and energy for the past two weekends has been spent in Maine around the birth of our newest grandson. He arrived at Maine Medical Center...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 15, 2025 | AMA vs. universal coverage, Burnout, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, doctor shortage, Dr. David Blumenthal, Dr. Harvey Cushing, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, income inequality as a threat to healthcare, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicare, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, political determinants of health, Project 2025, RFK Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's attack on medical research, Trump's chaos strategy, Universal Access
August 15, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Living in Trump’s Turbulent World In what seems to be an era of ongoing expanding and universal conflict, healthcare—the care of the individual, the collective effort to improve its delivery to everyone, its...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 30, 2023 | ACA, COVID, culture wars, diseases of despair, Dobbs v. Jackson, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Featured Post, George Saunders, Governor Ron DeSantis, Gun Violence, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Outcomes, Healthcare Quality, Inequality in Healthcare, political polarization, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The threat to women's reproductive rights, Universal Access, woke healthcare
June 30, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Where Does Your State Rank? Every year The Commonwealth Fund ranks the healthcare in each state. This year’s rankings were published last week on June 22 in an article entitled “2023 Scorecard on State Health...
