The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

So my insurance has been cancelled. Read on for the tale of his desperate attempts to figure out CoveredCA, Blue Shield of CA and the kafkaesque nightmare of American Health Insurance Cancel Culture thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...

Do you remember when Joseph McCarthy was defeated? Mike Magee does and he hopes something similar will happen again soon thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...

There is so much bullshit about the cost of health insurance and wouldn't it be better to give everyone cash. Luckily @kimbbellard.bsky.social is here to give you a very basic math lesson thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...

In the great Medicare Advantage or trad Medicare FFS debate, Jeff Goldsmith has now made his choice and dumped Medicare Advantage thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...

I really think putting staggeringly dumb rich people who are also total jerks in charge of everything was a bad call.

Do we need fewer lawyers and more scientists in Congress? @kimbbellard.bsky.social thinks so thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11...

Once again America turns to @kimbbellard.bsky.social to explain all that stuff about mRNA you missed by not reading the science journals.... thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11...

The ghost of EA Codman, the Boston surgeon who tried (and failed) to introduce quality scores for surgeons more than a century ago, rattled Leonard D'Avolio's cage a while back. He has thoughts thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11...

Rachel Reeves says we have a £25 billion black hole Rachel Reeves knows Brexit makes us £40 billion poorer Rejoining the EU would give us a £15 billion surplus Why doesn't Labour want what's best for the UK? Tax rises? That'll be Brexit

Phenomenal first time author on THCB today. Suhana Mishra is a student researcher in California's under-resourced central valley, and she has some great ideas for helping to get the word out the lack of access to primary care thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...

@kimbbellard.bsky.social has seen the future of video gaming and he thinks it has some lessons for health care thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...

More brilliant journalism from @radleybalko.bsky.social The awful story of how wrongful accusations destroyed a man's life. radleybalko.substack.com/p/accusing-j...

Lots more detail in here about this outrageous arrest. The guy has been in jail for weeks now for posting a quote by President Trump.

Kim Bellard wants to keep the subsidies for the ACA, but he's wondering why THIS is the one issue that is keeping the government shut down when there are so many worse problems thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...

used to be my MP. A decent an honorable man -- telling the truth

Unlike Jenrick & Badenoch, Heseltine has no wish to preside over the smoking, toxic ruins of the Conservative Party. This means he's able to tell the truth about Farage & Reform with no fear that this alienate puce-faced racists in golf-club blazers.

Tamir Gotfried, the Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer at TytoCare came on THCB to show us how their remote device works to deliver the last few inches of telehealth. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...

You're either with ICE or with humanity and democracy. Choose.

Great and more timely than ever 40 years later

WE HAVE LIFTOFF www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

There's a flightless bird that swims well with big ambitions in creating a platform for AI in all health care enterprises. Fawad Butt & Missy Krasner from Penguin Ai came on THCB to tell why this is needed and how it will work. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...

"Opposing reproductive choice while protecting the religious freedom assured by the very same 1st Amendment is a difficult needle to thread" Medical historian Mike Magee is looking at how religion is impacting the debate over abortion via telehealth. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...

Such a thrill to have Stephanie Strong and her new-ish colleague Marianna Zaslavsky from Boulder Care on THCB to discuss their program, what Medicaid cuts will mean and much more thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

Given the complete shit show emanating from HHS under RFK Jr and his bunch of jokers, david introcaso's proposal to make it an independent body like the Fed Reserve deserves a good look thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

Patient safety expert Michael Millenson reflects on how far we have come since a cabinet secretary's father was killed by a chemotherapy overdose in 1979. Not far enough thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

You may have heard from a very reputable scientific source, the President of the US or his head of the EPA, that climate change is a myth. @kimbbellard.bsky.social is here to remind you that it's not thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

Help texts is a really helpful lightweight solution for those grieving a loss. Today they are introducing a calculator that shows health plans how much that grieving costs them! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

If the international and US domestic justice systems were working properly there would not be enough courts in which to try this guy for his various crimes nor enough jails in which to confine him after he was convicted.

Apparently climate change is a hoax. Sadly no one told the planet that message. david introcaso is back on The Health Care Blog after a long absence to look at the response of the health care industry in cutting its carbon emissions. The news is not great..... thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

It's an unbelievable and very long read but here is @radleybalko's round up of this country's descent into authoritarianism in just the PAST MONTH. Read it and weep, literally open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

Ami Parekh from @includedhealth.bsky.social reports on part of the recent OBBA that has big implications for the future of telehealth especially for health plans. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

Epic has announced that its doing patient facing AI. Michael Millenson is not entirely impressed as to who the real customer is thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

On February 20, 1933, about 25 of Nazi Germany’s most important businessmen met with Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring at the Reichstag Palace, and contributed 3,000,000 Reichsmarks to the regime. A few years later, some of them sponsored the concentration camps and medical experiments on prisoners.

Professor of Physical Therapy Dr. Kaelee Brockway has been using AI to train her students on the soft skills that will improve their interactions with patients and their fellow health care professionals. She showed @boltyboy.bsky.social how it works. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

“So far AI in health care is being used to drive existing profits on workflows and increase revenue per event that patients in the end have to pay for. That’s not a win for anyone long term!” @includedhealth.bsky.social CEO Owen Tripp on the future use of AI thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...

Always knew Vinny Prasad was a fool. Didn't realize he was a coward too. YouTube & Alphabet don't exactly cover themselves in glory too www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

On a day when RFK Jr is destroying the CDC, here's a practical suggestion from Gregory Hopson as to how he might get himself and us out of this mess thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

@kimbbellard.bsky.social is very distressed about the state of politics and has decided the answer is to write a really stern letter! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

Jason Hines drops the other shoe on pricing & compares a big OBGYN clinic with its rivals. For one procedure it's getting 3 x the actual payment from the same plan that a competitor gets. You almost might end up sympathizing with @UHC after you read this! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

How much power do providers have vs plan in different markets? Jason Hines from Gigasheet has a very interesting look at the shenanigans between @UHC & a big OBGYN provider in the mid-Atlantic called @CapitalWomens Care. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

Today THCB is featuring a new author, Chinelo Grace Chigozie, who has concluded that transparency laws in the US aren't worth much without regulatory teeth thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

They are back! More on the Unified Health Data Platform and which systems should buy what from whom. Neil P. Jennings & Vince Kuraitis dive into the details in their ongoing series thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

The week after ChatGPT5 came out is as good a time as any for @kimbbellard.bsky.social to be both optimistic and very worried about the the societal and economic impacts of AI thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

Noem shooting the puppies...

Ami Parekh is the Chief Health Officer & Ankoor Shah is VP, Clinical Excellence at @includedhealth.bsky.social. I had a long conversation with them about the philosophy of how we are doing population health and how we fix the system that we have today. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Nearly 50 years on from its introduction Michael Millenson isn't too impressed with what passes for shared decision making. Will AI improve the patient experience? thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

Ha! @boltyboy.bsky.social joins Emily Peters to help her prep for her upcoming book Money Remaking Medicine. The whole thing got into HMOs, health costs, drug prices, et al. Dawn Ellison played host at the Healthcare Reinvention Collaborative. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...

If you care about AI and care about patient care you MUST see this demo of CureWise from OG digital health guy Steve Brown. He's building a multi-LLM multi-AI Doctor expert system to analyze first his, and then others' cancer data. Fascinating stuff thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07...