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 | 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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 17, 2026 | A personal history, ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Boston Marathon, Chapter 224, Featured Post, Health Policy Commission, History of Healthcare Reform, Martha Bebinger, Romneycare, The Triple Aim
April 17, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, A Celebration of a Past Victory In a Time of Great Concern There was an unusual gathering this past Monday at historic Faneuil Hall on Boston’s waterfront. The current governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey,...