Archive For: Commentaries

Winners and Losers in AI’s ‘Shadow Medical System’

Earlier this summer, I wrote a piece titled, “How AI Will Replace Your PCP — If It Hasn’t… Read More

By Ann Somers Hogg September 22, 2026

Will Healthcare Become Unaffordable for Most of Us?

America has faced healthcare affordability crises before. In the 1970s, soaring health costs prompted President Richard Nixon to… Read More

By Ken Terry September 8, 2026

Economics

Burda on Healthcare: Motive, Means and Opportunity: Billing Codes Are Murdering Healthcare

My knowledge of medical billing codes and coding has been strictly professional. My first full-time job in journalism… Read More

By David Burda September 1, 2026

The Primary Care Infrastructure Alliance: What Healthcare Can Learn From OneWorld

Primary care has an access problem, but we keep trying to solve it as an ownership problem. Demand… Read More

By Mike Eaton August 25, 2026

Healthcare’s One-World Solution

What if healthcare could consolidate without actually merging? Nonprofit health systems and insurers have struggled to achieve national… Read More

By David W. Johnson August 11, 2026

Outcomes

Burda on Healthcare: Somebody Owes Someone $1,233.33

There’s an old TV police drama called Naked City about detectives in New York. Each episode ended with… Read More

By David Burda August 4, 2026

How to Save Primary Care

Primary care is declining rapidly, threatening the stability of our healthcare system. Even though less than 5% of… Read More

By Ken Terry July 28, 2026

How AI Will Replace Your PCP — If It Hasn’t Already

A couple of weeks ago, I read Reid Hoffman’s latest Theory of the Game piece, “What If Everyone Could Afford… Read More

By Ann Somers Hogg July 21, 2026

The Choices Forced by the Coming Healthcare Revolution

This is Part 2 in a series about the future of American healthcare. Read Part 1 here. Scale… Read More

By Mike Eaton June 23, 2026

Commentaries