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CMS just published its own projection of who loses Medicaid. The number stopped me cold. 😶 2.3 million people. That is what the agency itself projects will lose Medicaid coverage in fiscal year 2027 under ...

A new blood test just changed colorectal cancer screening forever. 🩸 Everyone is celebrating this as a technology win. And it is. But the harder problem is not the test. It is the 60 million ...

A physician sits in a reading room in Cleveland. Before she touches a single chart, an AI agent has already triaged her queue, flagged a coronary risk from an incidental scan, and routed three patients ...

CMS just cut radiology pay again. Nobody is surprised. That is the problem. 📉 When a payment cut lands and the collective response is a shrug, it means the erosion has become the baseline. On ...

$867,465,287. That is the size of the federal Medicaid deferral CMS just dropped on California. 🚨 Not a rumor. Not a threat. A signed letter to California State Medicaid Director Tyler Sadwith dated July 21, ...

Congress just wrote a $25M check for lung imaging AI. Read that again. 🫁 I sat with that number for a while. Not a research grant. Not a pilot buried in an omnibus. A direct, ...

CMO, can you defend a guideline that would have missed 65% of lung cancer patients? 🔬 Because that is exactly what a new study in JAMA Network Open just showed. Researchers looked at 89,900 patients ...

The AI doctor debate is asking the wrong question entirely. July 12, 2026. Marc Andreessen posts on X that AI is already a better doctor than 99.99% of human doctors. A Silicon Valley benchmark goes ...

The US healthcare system profits from sickness. Someone just raised $700M to bet against it. 🏥 Everyone assumes the incumbents will lead the prevention revolution. They won't. They can't. The incentive structure won't let them. ...