adminGiving 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…
Struggling UnitedHealth Group is a Huge Smoking Black Box – The Health Care Blog
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In mid-April 2025, UnitedHealth Group (UNH) reported its 1Q25 operating results, including a modest shortfall in expected earnings and lowered its 2025 earnings forecast by 12%. The…
Support your neighborhood scientist – The Health Care Blog
By KIM BELLARD These are, it must be said, grim times for American science. Between the Trump budget cuts, the Trump attacks on leading research universities, and the normalization of…
How Predictive Modeling Can Rewrite the Story of Congenital Syphilis – The Health Care Blog
By KAYLA KELLY Every semester I have the privilege of guiding nursing students through their maternal and pediatric clinicals. At the beginning of the semester, their enthusiasm is contagious. They…
A Cautionary Tale – The Health Care Blog
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.…
Hospitals are Incompetent Monopolists! – The Health Care Blog
Health Policy Nov 11, 2025 By JEFF GOLDSMITH The health policy community is obsessed with hospital mergers. In a recent paper which I critiquedthe operating thesis was that hospital mergers…
Life Is Geometry – The Health Care Blog
By KIM BELLARD In 2025, we’ve got DNA all figured out, right? It’s been over fifty years since Crick and Watson (and Franklin) discovered the double helix structure. We know…
100+ Years of Profits > Patients – The Health Care Blog
By LEONARD D’AVOLIO I’m in the waiting room of the New England Baptist Hospital. They just wheeled my father to the OR. It’s strange to be back. Once upon a…
Artificial Intelligence Renders the FDA’s Current Drug Approval Process to be Obsolete – The Health Care Blog
By STEVEN ZECOLA Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has taken root in the field of drug discovery and development and already has shown signs of running past the traditional model of doing…
