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Let’s Check the Math on Health Subsidies
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 credi...
Farewell to Medicare Advantage
By JEFF GOLDSMITH This morning, after twelve years, I dumped my Medicare Advantage plan and enrolled in a Medicare Supplement policy. My smolde...
Why Patients – And Many Innovative Doctors – Are Pursuing Health Outside the System
By DAVID SHAYWITZ Our current system of delivering care is awful from the perspective of seemingly every stakeholder. It frustrates, enrages, sa...
If You Could read My Mind – Wait, You Can?
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 wa...
Giving Thanks – Ken Burns “THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION”
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 tha...
When Drug Price Transparency Isn’t Enough
By KRISTINA SMITH & PHIYEN NGUYEN Policymakers and advocates often promote drug price transparency to lower costs and improve equity. Whi...
Struggling UnitedHealth Group is a Huge Smoking Black Box
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In mid-April 2025, UnitedHealth Group (UNH) reported its 1Q25 operating results, including a modest shortfall in expected ear...
Support your neighborhood scientist
By KIM BELLARD These are, it must be said, grim times for American science. Between the Trump budget cuts, the Trump attacks on leading researc...
A Failure to Rescue: How Predictive Modeling Can Rewrite the Story of Congenital Syphilis
By KAYLA KELLY Every semester I have the privilege of guiding nursing students through their maternal and pediatric clinicals. At the beginnin...
When Your Cloud Provider Doesn’t Understand HIPAA: A Cautionary Tale
By JACOB REIDER & JODI DANIEL Jacob: I recently needed to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with one of the large hosting provide...
Hospitals are Incompetent Monopolists!
By JEFF GOLDSMITH The health policy community is obsessed with hospital mergers. In a recent paper which I critiqued, the operating thesis was...
Life Is Geometry
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...
"Oh. Another Moonshot"
Wed ,01 Apr 2026 On HALO
"Healthcare’s Quiet Dependence on the “Possimpible”"
Tue ,31 Mar 2026 On HALO
"Adventures in health care billing. My $51.96 zit co-insuranc..."
Mon ,30 Mar 2026 On HALO
"Calling BS"
Fri ,27 Mar 2026 On HALO
"Assault on Scientific Integrity Is “Fundamentally Problemati..."
Tue ,24 Mar 2026 On HALO
