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 16, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Medicare Advantage, Politics and Healthcare, Six Domains of Quality, Value Based Reimbursement
October 16, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Millions Lose Their Medicare Advantage Plans, and Many Will Pay More Yesterday, October 15, marked the start of the Medicare open enrollment period, which runs until December 7. Although I am a retired physician...
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 | 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...
