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 ambivalence about the progressing application of A.I. in medicine. But that curiosity isn’t just prospective, it’s retrospective too. In 2005, I became an outlier who…
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. How To Excise Politics From Health Care More than a decade after the Affordable Care Act took effect, we’re still trapped in a confusing and costly health care maze (“Readers Take…
As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unaffordable cost of health care. California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and five other states have set caps on health care spending in…
The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities, advocates say. Most of the lawyers work either for the Department of Justice or for disability rights agencies that Congress set up in every state decades ago. Many of the Justice Department lawyers quit in 2025 after…
From Zhu et al. (2025) in Health Affairs: Primary care clinicians have expressed growing interest in concierge and direct primary care practices, which often feature smaller patient panels and greater clinical autonomy compared with traditional primary care models. We assessed practice and workforce characteristics using a national sample of concierge and direct primary care practices…
Reperio Health is trying to really boost the delivery of at home health testing, including not only weight and blood pressure but also cholesterol, obesity and blood sugar. Having use the kit and done an at home demo, I’m pretty interested to see if this can be a front-end telehealth service to get the average…
This week’s edition of the Health Wonk Review is up at Joe Paduda’s Managed Care Matters. My article on Singapore’s health care system is highlighted, but check out the whole thing!
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Cuando Su Wang estudiaba medicina, donó sangre. Fue entonces cuando se enteró de que estaba infectada con hepatitis B, un virus que ataca el hígado y que puede causar cáncer y la muerte décadas más tarde. “Tenía 18 años, estaba sana, en la universidad”, contó. “Y de repente tenía una enfermedad crónica de la que…
As health insurance premiums skyrocket in both employer-based plans and Affordable Care Act marketplaces, millions face worse choices than ever during this open enrollment. The team behind “An Arm and a Leg” examines their own limited options, walking through how they approached reading the fine print to weed out the worst choices — and potentially…