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$CLOV I need to talk about what Clover Health just did because it hit me somewhere I was not expecting. When I was a third year medical student, we admitted an elderly patient through the emergency department. Advanced dementia. Nonverbal. No family at bedside. No identification beyond what the ambulance crew could provide. And no medical records. We had a human being in front of us and almost nothing to work with. We could do a physical exam. We could draw labs. But a physical exam does not tell you which of the four blood pressure medications someone was started on six months ago at a clinic across town. It does not tell you that a cardiologist already ruled out the arrhythmia you are about to spend twelve hours working up. It does not tell you that this patient had a severe allergic reaction to a contrast dye last year, and you are about to order a CT with contrast because no one documented it anywhere you can access. It does not tell you that the reason this patient is altered is because someone recently changed their seizure medication and nobody in this emergency room has any way of knowing that. We treated that patient the best we could. But I remember standing there thinking we are not practicing medicine right now. We are guessing. Educated guessing, yes. But guessing. For a patient who could not fill in a single gap for us. Who depended entirely on a system that had failed to keep their story in one place. I have carried that feeling with me into my career. Because that patient was not an outlier. That patient is someone’s mother or father in a memory care facility right now. That patient is the reason a family member calls every new doctor’s office and repeats the same history over and over, terrified that something critical will slip through the cracks. That is why what Vivek Garipalli and the Clover Health team just accomplished means so much to me. Clover became the first payer to go live on a CMS Aligned Network, delivering real time interoperability through their Counterpart Health platform. A patient’s clinical history and claims data can now follow them. Structured. Standardized. Accessible in the moments that matter most, not buried in a fax queue or locked inside a system that does not connect to anything. Picture what this means. Your parent with dementia is transported to an unfamiliar emergency room. And instead of starting from zero, the treating physician can pull up their medication list, their problem list, their recent encounters. They can see that the lisinopril was just increased. They can see the contrast allergy. They can make decisions rooted in knowledge instead of uncertainty. For a patient who cannot advocate for themselves, this technology becomes their voice. Vivek, thank you. You built CarePoint Health to serve communities that the system overlooked. You built Clover to change how Medicare works for seniors. And now you have moved the entire industry forward by proving that interoperability is not a regulatory box to check. It is how we protect the people who are least able to protect themselves. Everyone knows there is a way to invest and build wealth. That path is well worn. But what is rare, what is truly rare, is choosing to build something that makes a doctor more capable at a bedside. Something that wraps itself around the most vulnerable people in our society and says we see you, even when you cannot speak for yourself. That is not just a business. That is a contribution to humanity. I will be a better doctor because of what Clover Health is building. And I think about that patient from my third year often. I think about how different that night could have been. How many nights like that are happening right now in hospitals all over this country. And how what Clover just made real has the power to change every single one of them. Vivek, you and your team got this one right. And I am grateful.

A really important additional reason for your parent or grandparent (or great grandparent) to consider Clover as their insurer