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 | Sep 4, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, Cheatocracy, Cryptocracy, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Jamelle Bouie, Kakistocracy, Kleptocracy, Listening to Your Life, Project 2025, Representative Democracy, the president's lies, Theocracy
September 4, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Suffering From A Multitude of Dangerous “Ocracies” With a Common Origin If you like to play Scrabble, don’t try to use “ocracies” as a word because it is not in any dictionary. I should begin by saying...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 28, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, Access to care, Barriers to benefits, cost of healthcare, Donald Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare equity, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicaid work requirements, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, Pete Buttigieg, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, rural healthcare, SNAP
August 28, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Are Advocates For Better Healthcare Part of an Effective Majority? There are about nine weeks until the crucial 2026 midterm elections on November 3rd. If you want to know the exact number of weeks, days, and...
