I had shoulder surgery on Monday and today I’m getting information about what happened delivered into the big LLMs. Follow along with me as I figure out how to get the information in there and what it tells me. — Matthew Holt
By ADAM LEE Reflecting on a Private Equity (PE) internship in New York City reveals a major takeaway: financial engineering can be incredibly empowering, but applying it to public infrastructure often catches vulnerable communities in the crossfire. The PE industry typically views the world through balance sheets, debt structures, cash flow optimization, and lucrative acquisitions….
As Americans grow increasingly frustrated with their healthcare system, a proposal that has long been kicked around on the Democratic periphery is showing up in debates and on political platforms: “Medicare for All.” According to a 2025 Economist-YouGov poll, nearly 60% of Americans favor a system of Medicare for All, while 85% of Democrats support…
LOS ANGELES — Every Tuesday, Naman Shah sees tuberculosis patients at a small public clinic in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. Shah, a physician and epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, pores over images of battered lungs, listens to labored breathing, and checks medications. It’s part of an initiative dating to…
LANSING, Mich. — Christina Starks-Clay doesn’t know how “Medicare for All” would work exactly, but she’s willing to bet it’d be better than what she has now. Standing in line for U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s town hall in the state’s capital in September, she whipped out her phone to pull up a screenshot. It…
After President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act more than a year ago, enrollment in the federal food assistance program dropped rapidly across the nation as states enforced new restrictions and prepared to take on more of the costs. Nationally, an estimated 5 million, or 13%, fewer people were enrolled in the…
By KIM BELLARD The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is crying wolf about AI. Its new analysis claims that “hospital systems are increasingly billing patient hospital stays as more medically complex,” and that these upcodings cost BCBS plans almost $1b from 2023 to 2025. That’s just claims from hospital systems, just to BCBS plans, so…
(Maria Fabrizio for WPLN and KFF Health News) When Lori Baute first learned about precautionary full-body MRI scans, she dismissed the idea. “ I heard Kim Kardashian got one, and some other wealthy people,” Baute said. But at 59, she was worried about her long-term health. She has a family history of cancer, and she’s a…
On Sept. 30, I was one of the seven media witnesses who observed Tennessee fail to execute convicted murderer Christa Pike, the first woman to face the death penalty in the state in almost 200 years. From our previous reporting, each of us had an inkling that the lethal injection process might not go according…
By JEFF GOLDSMITH Back during the Jurassic period, at the beginning of my consulting career, senior colleagues at Ernst and Whinney took me to lunch to explain to the newby the facts of life in healthcare finance. The biggest takeaway from that long ago conversation: the entire history of hospital finance was built up on…