by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 30, 2026 | "concepts of a plan", 2026 midterm elections, ACA market subsidies, Access to care, AMA vs. universal coverage, Bernie Sanders, David Blumenthal, Dr. Ashish Jha, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, healthcare finance, Life Expectancy, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, RFK Jr.
January 30, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, The High Cost of Care Remains an Unsolved Problem For All of Us For many years, there has been too much uncertainty about the future of American healthcare. Even those of us who have coverage that should give us...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 9, 2026 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, Community Action Agencies, David Brooks, Featured Post, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Project 2025, Reinhold Niebuhr, Seeking Shalom, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, Trump chaos, Venezuela
January 9, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, In the Midst of Chaos We Can Focus On Community Should we say that 2026 is off to a strange start? Our president is now “running” Venezuela. There is adventure on the high seas as we “capture” oil freighters with...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 2, 2026 | 120th Congress, 2026 midterm elections, ACA, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health
2 January 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back At ‘25 With Regrets, Looking Forward to ‘26 With Hope Most Sunday mornings, my wife and I record CBS Sunday Morning hosted by veteran TV journalist Jane Pauley. We often don’t listen to it until later...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 19, 2025 | A personal history, ACA, Advent, Center Addressing Rural Health Equity (CARHE), Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, FEED Kearsarge, food banks, food Insecurity, Hunger in America, Kearsarge Food Hub, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Russell Vaught, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health
December 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Remembering During the Holidays That Not Everyone Has Enough to Eat, and Trying to Do Something About It. “Food insecurity” is a good enough phrase, but my take is that it is a clinical euphemism that takes the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 12, 2025 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, ACOs, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Zack Cooper
December 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, I Am Trying to Develop a Little Hope Now and then, I get an unexpected email response to one of these letters. This week, I got one of those surprises in an email from a longtime reader. He wrote: Have...
