by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 7, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, Christopher Koller, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Healthcare affordability, Healthcare equity, Listening to Your Life, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicare, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, social services safety net, Trump's undermining of healthcare, Universal Access
August 7, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back With Appreciation For What Has Been Accomplished, and Looking Forward With Concerns After I had “put down my pen” on last week’s letter, I read Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack post for July...
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 | 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...