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Cédric Kovacs-Johnson retweeted
This is a message for @realDonaldTrump.
Donald, this is on the table. Guarantee healthcare for every American, from cradle to grave.
This is now THE conversation
My new 2027 healthcare premiums for just my wife and I are $2,271.22 a month... $27,254.64 a year... with a $7,600 deductible. No kids, just us. This is an HDHP "low premium" plan.
So I have to pay $34,854.64 before ever receiving a dime of benefits from my insurance carrier, and Cigna pockets $27k of pure premium profit if I don't go to a doctor.
This is completely insane. Just tax me at 10% for Medicare and call it a day. The US privatized healthcare system is an abomination.
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Cédric Kovacs-Johnson retweeted
I joined today's episode of the Health Care Network to talk about @SophontAI's new product, Holon-S1!
Segment starts at 52:30, give it a watch!
New on HCN: the midterms and what they could mean for healthcare, from ACA subsidies to Medicaid to peptides.
Plus Tanishq Abraham on Sophont's healthcare world model and Andrew Brackin on Vera Health.
@brackin
@iScienceLuvr
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Cédric Kovacs-Johnson retweeted
Today on HCN, we sat down with @brackin, partner at
@GradientVC, to talk about Vera Health and how Al is changing the way clinicians search for medical evidence.
So great talking with @iScienceLuvr and @brackin on this week's brand new episode! plus, @operationdanish teaches us about... "licking a toad"?
Cédric Kovacs-Johnson retweeted
Wall Street spent the morning betting on Medicaid and the ACA after last night's blue wave!
@Centene, the largest Medicaid insurer, is up about 12% after beating earnings estimates by nearly 6x last week. Its CEO, Sarah London, is the youngest woman ever to lead a Fortune 500 company.
Health insurers and hospital stocks surged after Democrats swept Congress, with Bernstein seeing policy relief for Medicaid and ACA-focused names. Centene $CNC, Molina $MOH, HCA $HCA and Elevance $ELV all jumped premarket — but the bigger question is which parts of the healthcare policy reset actually make it into law.
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Cédric Kovacs-Johnson retweeted
When George had cancer, his family had support around the clock. With his rare disease, they get told to see a doctor and take two paracetamol.
His dad, Jonathan Bracey, founded the MVA Society to push for rare disease to get the attention cancer does.
1 year living in California and sometimes I’m wondering how tf this place operates
Latest example … my @SimpliSafe alarm went off, was canceled, it still somehow requested a police dispatch… which arrived HOURS later. And now I have a $360 bill from the city for a false alarm
And this is after you pay insane taxes
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Cédric Kovacs-Johnson retweeted
Remember when AI was supposed to replace radiologists?
Chris Lee, CEO of @FourierHealth, says now health systems can't hire them fast enough. Imaging has gotten cheaper, but every scan still needs a doctor to read it.
Is radiology safe or is it only a matter of time?
HCN Episode 13 is live!
Today on HCN
• A father open-sources his son's genome to chase a cure for an ultra-rare disease: Jonathan Bracey of MVA Society
• How good is health AI, really? Christopher Lee of Fourier Health
• Congress asks whether PBMs use audits to punish independent pharmacies
• Hims & Hers moves into TRT, Walmart + General Medicine launch a marketplace: consumers want to shop
• Bookmarks: AI as a second look on scans, scorpions and horseshoe crabs, and a viral cannabis study taken apart
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Cédric Kovacs-Johnson retweeted
Tomorrow, we sit down with Christopher Lee, co-founder and CEO of @FourierHealth, on the realities of health AI, and what actually works once it's inside a real clinic.
We also talk to Jonathan Bracey, founder of the MVA Society, about a global hackathon built around his son's genome to find answers for an ultra-rare disease.
This and more on HCN!
I’ve said it before. Healthcare will be THE political issue for the foreseeable future
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Cédric Kovacs-Johnson retweeted
Today in @Nature, we’re sharing the breakthrough research behind the Personal Health Agent (PHA)—the foundational science that was fundamental to how we built the Google Health Coach in the Google Health App.