adminThe Dartboard Toss and the Algorithm – The Health Care Blog
By GEORGE BEAUREGARD How A.I. could have personalized my 2005 cancer journey I don’t think I’m in the minority of Baby Boomer physicians when it comes to my curiosity and…
Let’s get moving on AI-discovered treatments – The Health Care Blog
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 in polyps attributable…
Health Insurance Cancel Culture – The Health Care Blog
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…
Slaying The Dragon – The Health Care Blog
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…
Let’s Check the Math on Health Subsidies – The Health Care Blog
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…
Farewell to Medicare Advantage – The Health Care Blog
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 . . .…
Why Patients – And Many Innovative Doctors – Are Pursuing Health Outside the System – The Health Care Blog
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 alike. No one…
If You Could read My Mind – Wait, You Can? – The Health Care Blog
By KIM BELLARD Over the years, one area of tech/health tech I have avoided writing about are brain-computer interfaces (B.C.I.). In part, it was because I thought they were kind…
Giving Thanks – Ken Burns “THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION” – The Health Care Blog
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)…
When Drug Price Transparency Isn’t Enough – The Health Care Blog
By KRISTINA SMITH & PHIYEN NGUYEN Policymakers and advocates often promote drug price transparency to lower costs and improve equity. While transparency is an important first step toward accountability and…
