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...
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 | Jul 10, 2026 | ChatGPT, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, No Kings protest, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Our 250th National Birthday, physician signers of the Declaration of Independence, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Declaration of Independence, The Triple Aim, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency, Trump's undermining of healthcare
July 10, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Physicians and The Declaration of Independence: Redux When I signed off on my second attempt at last week’s letter discussing the participation of physicians who signed the Declaration of Independence, I thought it...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 3, 2026 | A story from my life, ChatGPT, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Dr. Matthew Thornton, Featured Post, Fourth of July, My mistake, Our 250th National Birthday, Physicians as politicians and public leaders, Vaccination of the Continental Army of George Washington
July 3, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Oops! I goofed! An unfinished version of this letter appeared in your email on Wednesday. Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was evidence of intellectual decline. For whatever reason, I inadvertently released a rough...