The Health Care Blog

The changes coming to Medicaid mean that states, plans and providers all need help. Jeff Brandes from Azara Healthcare has several ideas for what might actually work thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2026/02/1…

We have been missing Kim Bellard explaining the word to us at The Health Care Blog in recent weeks but he's baaack. There is not enough trust in the CDC or vaccines. Kim tells us why thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2026/02/1…

As many of you know, referrals are a total mess. Naheem Noah is a PhD designer who thinks he has the solutions to fix it. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12/2…

The 6th installment of @boltyboy's attempt to discover why he was charged $34.94 for a preventative lab test that should have been free is up. And no, it's not the final episode in the telenovela thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12/1…

Thank you @boltyboy @THCBstaff for the opportunity to reshare my recent @timmermanreport piece on why the real opportunity for proactive digital health platforms is designing for agency, vs merely fixating on performance metrics. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12/1…

David Shaywitz thinks that agency (as in the ability to direct one's own life, not HHS!) is the key to health. And he puts that in context regarding wearables, longevity and more. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12/1…

So @THCBstaff 's brave leader @boltyboy found that his insurance had been cancelled. Read on for the tale of his desperate attempts to figure out @CoveredCA, @BlueShieldCA and the kafkaesque nightmare of American Health Insurance Cancel Culture thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12/0…

Do you remember when Joseph McCarthy was defeated? @drmikemagee does and he hopes something similar will happen again soon thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12/0…

There is so much bullshit about the cost of health insurance and wouldn't it be better to give everyone cash. Luckily Kim Bellard is here to give you a very basic math lesson thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12/0…

I'm still wondering about what to do in a few years. Jeff Goldsmith has officially changed his mind

In the great Medicare Advantage or trad Medicare FFS debate, Jeff Goldsmith has now made his choice and dumped Medicare Advantage thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12/0…

David Shaywitz digs deep into why physicians and patients are looking outside the current health care system and using and building care based on devices, longevity, and even new forms of agency thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12/0…

It's Thanksgiving (well almost) and @drmikemagee gives thanks for America, with a lot of help from his son Mike's new book and from Ken Burns. A nice palate cleanser in another hell of a week... thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11/2…

Katie D'Amico is running innovation at @CareQuestInno Institute for Oral Health where she's working on the integration of oral health into mainstream medical care. She took me on a tour & introduced me to some partners at HLTH in October 20205 thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11/2…

Great post from PhiYen Nguyen, MPP & Kristina Smith, MSW from the Boston University School of Public Health. Drugs cost too much in America. And no, transparency alone won't fix it thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11/2…

The ongoing cluster at @UnitedHealthGrp continues to mystify Jeff Goldsmith -- who has been watching it for years thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11/1…

Do we need fewer lawyers and more scientists in Congress? Kim Bellard thinks so thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11/1…

Kayla Kelly from UT Tyler School of Nursing writes about a terrible and growing problem -- congenital syphilis transmission to newborns. You might have thought this was something we fixed 100 years ago. But it's back and getting worse. How do we stop it? thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11/1…

Don't assume that every tech provider understands HIPAA. ONC OG's Jacob Reider & Jodi Daniel explain why in this nuanced tale of the cloud provider that wanted Jacob to sign an agreement that might have got them all in lots of trouble! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11/1…

Fascinating demo and chat about the issues getting data out of EMRs for the clinician. Kai Romero from Evidently shows how their tool delivers information out of data in multiple EMRs using AI to help clinician make better decisions. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11/1…