I was in San Francisco earlier this week, debating the AI dividend with a dozen CEOs of major hospital systems at a dinner sponsored by Philips. If you're Suresh Gunasekaran of UCSF Health, which consistently ranks among the world's best in health outcomes and medical research, AI is becoming baked into a more seamless patient experience. "Being a medical student, a pharmacy student, a nurse is no longer the same in the age of AI," Gunasekaran said.
Released last month, the study finds that nearly half of U.S. adults worry they won't be able to afford necessary medical care in the coming year, and one in five households reported being unable to pay for prescription medicine in the past three months. Another sobering point: about three in ten U.S. adults said that someone in their household went without needed medical care in the past year because they just couldn't afford it.
Although a federal court ordered him to continue to provide food stamps to about 42 million low-income Americans who depend on them, Trump threatened to deny them anyway until the end of the government shutdown. In a post on social media on Tuesday, he said benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), commonly referred to as food stamps, will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up the government, which they can easily do, and not before!
The move will relieve some or all of the medical debt for 500,000 New Yorkers on a one-time basis. It is part of a program Adams launched last year with Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that buys medical debt to acquire debt portfolios from healthcare providers, hospitals, and collection agencies. Since the program launched in 2024, it has thus far canceled $135 million in medical debt for 75,000 New Yorkers.
Blair took Troma's splatterpunk superhero movie and imbued it with an exploration of how unfair the healthcare industry can be; instead of the original's bullied loner, this movie's hero is Winston Gooze, a janitor trying to support his stepson. But when he's diagnosed with a brain issue that requires treatment not covered by his healthcare plan, he seeks revenge by becoming The Toxic Avenger. That revenge isn't just fictional: the studio behind the movie is helping real-life victims.
