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- What Good Is Health Coverage If You Cannot Get to the Doctor
by matthew holt on October 23, 2026 at 6:01 amBy JOE MKHITARYAN We spend a lot of time talking about who has health insurance. I think we need to spend more time asking who can actually use it. You can approveContinue reading...
- Have doctors given up on doctoring?
by matthew holt on October 22, 2026 at 5:01 amBy MIKE MAGEE MD I read with interest, Dr. Rachael Bedard’s September 25, 2026 New York Times article titled “Being a Doctor Will Never Be the Same After A.I.” In her secondContinue reading...
- Medicine Gave Itself a Code for Diabetes Remission. A Year Later, the Payment System Still Can’t See It.
by matthew holt on October 21, 2026 at 6:36 amBy HANA KAHLEOVA “Will this only get worse?” Patients with type 2 diabetes have asked me some version of that question for my entire career. For most of it, the honest answerContinue reading...
- Big Bucks, No Whammies, Part 2: So You Won. Now What?
by matthew holt on October 20, 2026 at 5:59 amBy STEPHEN FARBER Part one argued that patient access was never the finish line; it was the foundation. This is about what we build now that we are standing on it. EveryContinue reading...
- A Regulatory Blind Spot Hiding in Plain Sight
by matthew holt on October 19, 2026 at 7:07 amBy JUSTIN MCKAY When I’m brought back into the diagnostic area, one of the first things I see is a lead apron, well-worn and folded into itself, about ready to slide offContinue reading...
- Is Your AI Query Tool Compliant by Default?
by matthew holt on October 14, 2026 at 3:01 pmBy BRIAN FENGLER Every night in the emergency department, the electronic health record hums with small demands for attention. A nudge about sepsis. A best-practice advisory. A documentation suggestion that arrives betweenContinue reading...
- Discharge Planning Ends at the Funeral Home. That’s a Health System Failure.
by matthew holt on October 13, 2026 at 8:51 pmBy EVAN REID We reconcile medications at discharge because we decided, correctly, that the handoff out of a hospital is a clinical event with its own failure modes. Then a patient dies,Continue reading...
- Employers that exclude GLP-1s point staff to a website and a pretax account
by matthew holt on October 12, 2026 at 8:21 pmBy JOHN SAMARAS Most employers still won’t cover GLP-1s for weight loss, and some of them now tell the employee where to buy them without the plan. The International Foundation of EmployeeContinue reading...
- Health and Democracy on the Ballot: A Conversation with Dr. Atul Gawande
by matthew holt on October 12, 2026 at 4:35 amI’m inviting you to a virtual Movement Voter Project event with Dr. Atul Gawande on Thursday, October 22, 8PM ET • 7 PM CT • 6 PM MT • 5 PM PTContinue reading...
- My shoulder — The Inciteful Med, Claude & HealthX update
by matthew holt on October 9, 2026 at 5:57 amI 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 informationContinue reading...