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Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask.

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October 2026

  1. I’d Like Some Choices, Please
  2. HCAHPS 2.0 Is Not a Survey Update. It’s a Strategic Shift for Healthcare
  3. Enough of Asshole Capitalism
  4. What Good Is Health Coverage If You Cannot Get to the Doctor
  5. Have doctors given up on doctoring?
  6. Medicine Gave Itself a Code for Diabetes Remission. A Year Later, the Payment System Still Can’t See It.
  7. Big Bucks, No Whammies, Part 2: So You Won. Now What?
  8. A Regulatory Blind Spot Hiding in Plain Sight
  9. Is Your AI Query Tool Compliant by Default?
  10. Discharge Planning Ends at the Funeral Home. That’s a Health System Failure.
  11. Employers that exclude GLP-1s point staff to a website and a pretax account
  12. Health and Democracy on the Ballot: A Conversation with Dr. Atul Gawande
  13. My shoulder — The Inciteful Med, Claude & HealthX update
  14. Wall Street in the ER: How Private Equity Is Squeezing Local Hospitals
  15. Healthcare Is Fighting the Wrong AI War
  16. Time to Stop “Calling it Reimbursement”
  17. The Rural Radiologist Who Already Exists
  18. You Say “AI,” I Hear “Organoid”
  19. The Least-Informed Person in the Room

September 2026

  1. Thinking of Healthcare Reform as a Movement
  2. Glucose Data Wants to Be Ambient
  3. The pharmacy pays $1,302. The patient pays $299
  4. THCB Gang Special — The Odyssey of Women’s Health: Journeying into the Midterms
  5. HealthEx — The Demo with Claude & the CEO Speaks!
  6. Know Thyselves
  7. Owen Tripp, Included Health–How to Fix AI
  8. Whack-a-Mole AI – The Hugging Face Problem
  9. Gozio – Patient Navigation & Directions!
  10. Start Counting Your Days
  11. Ran Shaul, K Health
  12. Institutional Betrayal: HHS’s Failure to Decarbonize the Healthcare Industry (Part 2)
  13. America Is Running Out of Doctors
  14. Institutional Betrayal: HHS’s Failure to Decarbonize the Healthcare Industry (Part 1)
  15. When “Paying Correctly” Means Paying Nothing: How to Make Medicare Advantage Accountable
  16. The Pandemic Risk of “What I’ve Never Seen Before”
  17. “We’re Sorry, That’s the Policy”: How a Medicare Advantage Runaround Nearly Cost a Senior His Sight

August 2026

  1. Big Bucks, No Whammies: Patient Access Was Never the Finish Line
  2. Hospital Price Transparency Legislation Will Burden Poor and Rural Patients
  3. Prior Authorization
  4. Universal Coverage Might Be Nice, but an AI Tax Is Necessary
  5. Pre-Surgical Complications (Part 6) — The Decision
  6. Pre-Surgical Complications (Part 5)
  7. Pre-Surgical Complications (Part 4)
  8. Pre-Surgical Complications (Part 3)
  9. Pre-Surgical Complications (Part 2)
  10. Pre-Surgical Complications (Part 1)
  11. Is There Hope for Parkinson’s Disease Patients?
  12. A digital health company became an insurance carrier under the thin veil of a product launch
  13. Is Constructing Multi-generational “Healthy Homes” a Good Investment?
  14. Passing the Lantern

July 2026

  1. The same 10mg Zepbound costs $449 or $699
  2. Work Requirements Target the Wrong People
  3. The Limits of Disclosure and the Power of the Outside Option: A Case for External Reference Pricing in Healthcare
  4. Matthew reviews ChatGPT Health
  5. Healthcare Has Confused Disclosure With Understanding
  6. The Drug Changing Medicine
  7. The price of Ozempic is a meaningless phrase
  8. Value Is in the Eye of the Beholder
  9. The wrong people are scared of clinical AI
  10. Future of AI and Telehealth in primary care — Panel discussion
  11. How Online Prescription Services Are Closing the Access Gap for Patients Who Skip the Doctor’s Office
  12. A ridiculously stupid letter from a health insurer
  13. Life Not As We Know It
  14. AI and Professional Nursing: On a Collision Course
  15. July 4, 1862

June 2026

  1. THCB Spotlight: Warris Bokhari, Claimable
  2. How The Patient Rights Revolution Builds on America’s 1776 One
  3. The ‌Missing ‌Vital ‌Sign: Why Modern Medicine Still Won’t Measure Sleep
  4. Ellipsis Health
  5. Good News: Teen Pregnancies Hit New Low In the US
  6. Oceans, Away
  7. Good News on the HIV Front
  8. What Happens When Insurance Companies Become More Powerful Than Medicine?
  9. You call this a system?
  10. The Uninsured Crisis: Letter from Arizona
  11. Schrodinger’s Co-pay

May 2026

  1. Meat Computers of the World, Unite!
  2. Is California Staffed For the Crisis? Not Yet.
  3. The Canaries Are All Dead
  4. Dor Skuler, Intuition Robotics: Meet ElliQ
  5. Healthcare ‘quality’ is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
  6. Officers Eat Last
  7. New Podcast on Primary Care
  8. Don’t Bury The Lead – AI Assisted Measures of Thymic Health Point to a “Fountain of Youth.”
  9. Ben Salter, SafeRide Health
  10. CRUSHing Lab Fraud: Three Myths that Derail Real Reform
  11. Bribery, Corruption and the American Health Care Way
  12. Come help save democracy!

April 2026

  1. Bevey Miner, Consensus Cloud Solutions
  2. It’s Got a Good Beat and You Can Kill It
  3. Samira Daswani, Manta Cares
  4. Adrian Owen & Faraz Shafaghi, Creyos
  5. Dayne Williams, Quantum Health
  6. Philippe Pouletty, Carvolix
  7. Peter Stetson, TigerConnect
  8. A Unified Sense of Self
  9. Concierge Care for All: Yes, It Really Is That Simple
  10. Give That 1337 a Job!
  11. Cody Simmons, DermaSensor
  12. Massively Better Healthcare, a review
  13. Quantifying the Rural Access Problem: Emergency Cardiac Care as a Window into American Healthcare
  14. 7th and possibly final update on the $39.94 lab test bill
  15. Tom Kelly, Heidi Health
  16. Dyslexia Comes Back To Bite President Trump
  17. There Are Three Kinds of Primary Care, Not to Be Confused With Each Other
  18. Oh. Another Moonshot
  19. Today’s April Fool is me in 2011
  20. Kevin Wang, Suki

March 2026

  1. Healthcare’s Quiet Dependence on the “Possimpible”
  2. Adventures in health care billing. My $51.96 zit co-insurance
  3. Calling BS
  4. Ian Shakil, Commure
  5. Function Health has a 23andMe problem
  6. Jason Prestinario, Particle Health
  7. Assault on Scientific Integrity Is “Fundamentally Problematic.”
  8. Mario Danek, QNovia
  9. Beyond Generative AI
  10. Preeti Bhargava, Arintra
  11. How Digital Narratives Shape Mental Health Outcomes
  12. Oscar-Nominated Film Highlights Shared American, Iranian Health System Concerns
  13. Stuck in the Middle
  14. Jesse Shoplock, Inbox Health
  15. Ratnakar Lavu, Elevance
  16. Michael Dalton, Ovatient
  17. Liberal Arts Education As a Counterbalance To Trumpian AI
  18. Lauren Ranalli, Town Square Health
  19. When Artificial Intelligence Starts Rewriting Reality
  20. Oren Nissim, Brook.ai – Figuring out RPM
  21. Miriam Paramore, RxUtility

February 2026

  1. The Vocabulary of Survival
  2. Will AI Solve Immunology’s Debate Over “Self vs. Non-Self?”
  3. Can We Ride the GenAI Wave Without Getting Subsumed by It?
  4. Sofia Noori, Nema Health
  5. AI replaces me: The Private AI Bubble Meets the Public Digital Health Reality Check
  6. Amodei Believes “AI-Enabled Autocracy” Could Be Imminent
  7. Ten Ten Ten – Trying to radically fix health care in the US
  8. 2026: A Year for Reimagining Healthcare’s Safety Net
  9. Trust No One
  10. Carta Healthcare – AI for Registry Creation
  11. Will HHS Enhance or Stall the Promise of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare?
  12. Arnold Ventures Part II “Structuring Information Felicitously”
  13. Primary care, Concierge Care & AI – How to fix health care

January 2026

  1. John Arnold: The Most Powerful Man in Healthcare Nobody has Ever Heard Of (Pt I)
  2. Shifting Sands Part 3
  3. Indiana – It is the best of times, and the worst of times
  4. A $2,000 Voucher and 600 Patients: The Math Behind Fixing Care
  5. Hospitals can soften the blow of Medicaid’s retroactive coverage change, if they choose to
  6. It’s Only a Subsidy If You’re Poor
  7. Jim Gallic shows off Wondr Health
  8. Even When Healthcare Has a Clear Price Tag, Are We Getting What We Pay For?

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