The 2024 Word of the Year: Missense
By MIKE MAGEE
Not surprisingly, my nominee for “word of the year” involves AI, and specifically “the language of human biology.”
As Eliezer Yudkowski, the founder...
Who to Blame for Health Costs: The Poisoned Chalice of “Moral...
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
How the Search for Perfect Markets has Damaged Health Policy
Sometimes ideas in healthcare are so powerful that they haunt us for generations...
A New Day for Parkinson’s Disease Research Is Near
By STEVEN ZECOLA
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (“HHS”) is responsible for a wide range of activities relating to medical and public...
Raj Singh, Accolade
Earlier this month I caught up with Raj Singh, the CEO of Accolade. The “navigation” company is publicly traded and now offering its own...
Medicare Is Now Profitable as a Total Program Because of Medicare...
By GEORGE HALVORSON
Medicare made $83.4 billion very real dollars in 2022. The 17% discounts below the average cost of fee-for-service Medicare, that happen in...