adminFather Christmas Reminds Us We Can Do Better Than This – The Health Care Blog
By MIKE MAGEE The Ghost of Christmas Past, in the form of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, has returned this season to torture one RFK Jr who refuses to fully…
Why AI Still Isn’t Fixing Patient Referrals—And How It Could – The Health Care Blog
By NAHEEM NOAH A Call from the Black Hole Three months into building Carenector’s facility-to-facility platform, I got a call that crystallized everything wrong with healthcare referrals. A hospital social…
To Improve Health, Design for Agency – The Health Care Blog
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…
Brown and Toland weighs in on the $34.94 Labcorp test. (Part 6) – The Health Care Blog
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…
The 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 . . .…
