By DAVID SHAYWITZ Agency — the conviction I can shape my future — is a vital driver of human health and human potential. It is also the factor overlooked by most digital health ...
By MATTHEW HOLT I know you all care, so I am giving a 6th update on the telenovela about my Labcorp bill for $34.95. The very TL:DR summary of where we are so far is that in May 2025 I ...
Health Policy Dec 11, 2025 By STEVEN ZECOLA Recursion Pharmaceuticals announced results today for one its AI-discovered treatments. I was pleased to see the large, sustained reduction ...
By MATTHEW HOLT Strap in for a dramatic tale in which our hero battles bureaucracy and logic to try to get his health insurance back. About 20 years ago lots of Americans, especially ...
By MIKE MAGEE The date was June 9, 1954. This was over a year after Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had assumed the chairmanship of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on ...
By KIM BELLARD It’s December 3, and, to no one’s surprise, Congress still has not acted on extending the expanded health care premium tax credits for ACA. To Congress, the subsidies don’t ...
By JEFF GOLDSMITH This morning, after twelve years, I dumped my Medicare Advantage plan and enrolled in a Medicare Supplement policy. My smoldering discontent finally boiled over and . . . ...
By DAVID SHAYWITZ Our current system of delivering care is awful from the perspective of seemingly every stakeholder. It frustrates, enrages, saddens, and depletes patients and physicians ...
By MIKE MAGEE Give thanks for our America, blemishes and all. Ken Burns says as much, making it clear, we are a mess of contradictions, and that is (in part) what makes us a uniquely ...
Health Policy Nov 11, 2025 By JEFF GOLDSMITH The health policy community is obsessed with hospital mergers. In a recent paper which I critiqued, the operating thesis was that hospital ...
Health Policy Nov 11, 2025 What are the practices that we have normalized that future generations will criticize us for? Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Health Plan, is perhaps the leading truth ...
By JACOB REIDER & JODI DANIEL Jacob: I recently needed to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with one of the large hosting providers for a new health IT project. What should ...
