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The market will need to step in where the government has failed. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/gallup-poll-record-number-adults-anxious-health-costs-2026-rcna244358
A record number of Americans are anxious about health care costs going into next year
The West Health-Gallup survey finds almost half of adults say they’re worried they won’t be able to afford health care in 2026.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The market will need to step in where the government has failed. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/gallup-poll-record-number-adults-anxious-health-costs-2026-rcna244358
4sight Health’s David W. Johnson is center stage on the Mindshare podcast with Intermountain Health Institute’s Executive Director and Mindshare President Carter Dredge. https://www.4sighthealth.com/whats-really-shaping-healthcares-future/
What’s Really Shaping Healthcare’s Future - 4sight Health
From macro forces to ground-level realities,4sight Health's David W. Johnson lays out how America can fix its health crisis.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
4sight Health’s David W. Johnson is center stage on the Mindshare podcast with Intermountain Health Institute’s Executive Director and Mindshare President Carter Dredge. https://www.4sighthealth.com/whats-really-shaping-healthcares-future/
This feature puts names and faces to everyday people who likely will forgo insurance next year because of the cost. These are the people who will move the market.
https://www.vox.com/health/468555/health-insurance-uninsured-affordable-care-act-government-shutdown
https://www.vox.com/health/468555/health-insurance-uninsured-affordable-care-act-government-shutdown
Meet the newly uninsured
Millions of Americans will soon go without insurance. We spoke with some of them.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This feature puts names and faces to everyday people who likely will forgo insurance next year because of the cost. These are the people who will move the market.
https://www.vox.com/health/468555/health-insurance-uninsured-affordable-care-act-government-shutdown
https://www.vox.com/health/468555/health-insurance-uninsured-affordable-care-act-government-shutdown
AI-powered healthcare also has the potential to move the market if consumers abandon traditional healthcare providers and insurers because of access, quality and cost challenges.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
AI-powered healthcare also has the potential to move the market if consumers abandon traditional healthcare providers and insurers because of access, quality and cost challenges.
When academic medical centers invest in healthcare companies, who benefits? https://www.4sighthealth.com/podcast-does-vc-spending-by-academic-medical-centers-check-the-right-boxes-11-20-25/
Podcast: Does VC Spending by Academic Medical Centers Check the Right Boxes? 11/20/25 - 4sight Health
David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson debate who benefits when academic medical centers invest in healthcare companies on the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
When academic medical centers invest in healthcare companies, who benefits? https://www.4sighthealth.com/podcast-does-vc-spending-by-academic-medical-centers-check-the-right-boxes-11-20-25/
Will the market step up after this abdication by the government? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reproductive-health-trump-administration-hhs-cuts/
The quiet collapse of America's reproductive health safety net
People don't realize how much these clinics hold together the local health system until they're gone, said the head of Maine Family Planning clinics.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Will the market step up after this abdication by the government? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reproductive-health-trump-administration-hhs-cuts/
Here's a twist: Health systems are more worried about the cost of GLP-1 drugs than burnout these days. https://www.4sighthealth.com/hospitals-have-a-weight-problem/
Hospitals Have a Weight Problem - 4sight Health
4sight Health’s David Burda says health systems have a new concern — they are more worried about the cost of GLP-1 drugs than burnout.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Here's a twist: Health systems are more worried about the cost of GLP-1 drugs than burnout these days. https://www.4sighthealth.com/hospitals-have-a-weight-problem/
Lower childhood vaccination rates will only lead to an increase in serious, acute and potentially deadly cases of communicable diseases. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/support-measles-vaccination-drops-amid-growing-confusion-about-disease-us-poll-shows
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Lower childhood vaccination rates will only lead to an increase in serious, acute and potentially deadly cases of communicable diseases. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/support-measles-vaccination-drops-amid-growing-confusion-about-disease-us-poll-shows
4sight Health's David Burda serves up the top 10 things you might have missed in the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 27th annual employer health benefits report. https://www.4sighthealth.com/burda-on-healthcare-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-employer-health-benefits/
Burda on Healthcare: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Employer Health Benefits - 4sight Health
4sight Health's David Burda goes beyond the headlines to look deeper at the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 27th annual employer health benefits report.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
4sight Health's David Burda serves up the top 10 things you might have missed in the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 27th annual employer health benefits report. https://www.4sighthealth.com/burda-on-healthcare-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-employer-health-benefits/
The erosion of trust by consumers in the healthcare system and among industry sectors is a major barrier to building a better healthcare system. https://source.washu.edu/2025/10/americans-trust-their-doctors-but-doubt-the-system/
Americans trust their doctors, but doubt the system
The People’s Report Card, released by Washington University in St. Louis' QuEST Center and School of Public Health, grades U.S. health care on quality, cost, confidence and leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The erosion of trust by consumers in the healthcare system and among industry sectors is a major barrier to building a better healthcare system. https://source.washu.edu/2025/10/americans-trust-their-doctors-but-doubt-the-system/
Not only do you get to control the means of production, you get to move money around to more places and sidestep regulations and financial reporting requirements. https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/unitedhealthcare-pays-optum-doctors-more-than-other-doctors-study/804600/
UnitedHealthcare pays Optum doctors more than other doctors: study
Researchers said the results suggest UnitedHealth may be sidestepping government rules meant to keep a lid on exorbitant payer profits. UnitedHealth said the study was “flat-out wrong.”
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November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Not only do you get to control the means of production, you get to move money around to more places and sidestep regulations and financial reporting requirements. https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/unitedhealthcare-pays-optum-doctors-more-than-other-doctors-study/804600/
Founder of Whole Person Index and CEO of LovEvolve Katie Kaney sits down with 4sight Health's David Burda to talk about operating in the maternal health space. https://www.4sighthealth.com/podcast-how-healthcare-revolutionaries-think-with-katie-kaney/
Podcast: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think With Katie Kaney - 4sight Health
4sight Health's David Burda interviews Dr. Katie Kaney in this Healthcare Revolutionaries podcast
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November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Founder of Whole Person Index and CEO of LovEvolve Katie Kaney sits down with 4sight Health's David Burda to talk about operating in the maternal health space. https://www.4sighthealth.com/podcast-how-healthcare-revolutionaries-think-with-katie-kaney/
Employment over affiliation is about control. https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/28/unitedhealth-group-strategy-shift-doctor-network/
UnitedHealth wants to employ more of its doctors
UnitedHealth is making a big change to its doctor strategy in an effort to improve financial results.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Employment over affiliation is about control. https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/28/unitedhealth-group-strategy-shift-doctor-network/
4sight Health's David Burda looks seasonal similarities of two different worlds. https://www.4sighthealth.com/what-medicare-beneficiaries-and-deer-have-in-common/
What Medicare Beneficiaries and Deer Have in Common - 4sight Health
What do deer and healthcare recipients have in common? 4sight Health's David Burda looks at the seasonal similarities in these two very different worlds.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
4sight Health's David Burda looks seasonal similarities of two different worlds. https://www.4sighthealth.com/what-medicare-beneficiaries-and-deer-have-in-common/
When it comes to federal price transparency requirements, most hospitals and health plans are looking for every opportunity not to follow the spirit if not the letter of the law. Consumers are the losers. https://www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025/10/30/health-plan-price-transparency-needs-work
Health plan price transparency still needs work, report finds
To be totally transparent: We still don’t know how much a procedure costs.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When it comes to federal price transparency requirements, most hospitals and health plans are looking for every opportunity not to follow the spirit if not the letter of the law. Consumers are the losers. https://www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025/10/30/health-plan-price-transparency-needs-work
Checking for upsets: 4sight Health contributor Ann Somers Hogg uses a six-question test from the Christensen Institute to test the disruptive potential of OpenEvidence. https://www.4sighthealth.com/hogg-openevidence-disruptive-or-not/
OpenEvidence: Disruptive or Not? - 4sight Health
4sight Health contributor Ann Somers Hogg of the Christensen Institute test's OpenEvidence with a six-question test for disruptive potential.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Checking for upsets: 4sight Health contributor Ann Somers Hogg uses a six-question test from the Christensen Institute to test the disruptive potential of OpenEvidence. https://www.4sighthealth.com/hogg-openevidence-disruptive-or-not/
Most hospitals, health systems and medical practices are scofflaws when it comes to building the infrastructure for value-based care through new people, processes and technology. https://www.techtarget.com/revcyclemanagement/news/366634048/Survey-Most-providers-not-ready-for-TEAM-bundled-payments
Survey: Most providers not ready for TEAM bundled payments | TechTarget
Despite new requirements coming in January, 77% of providers don't feel prepared for new TEAM bundled payments as they continue to suffer from data challenges.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Most hospitals, health systems and medical practices are scofflaws when it comes to building the infrastructure for value-based care through new people, processes and technology. https://www.techtarget.com/revcyclemanagement/news/366634048/Survey-Most-providers-not-ready-for-TEAM-bundled-payments
This move blames and harms consumers. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/trump-administration-undercuts-state-bans-medical-debt-consumer-credit-reports
Trump administration undercuts state bans on medical debt in consumer credit reports
The Trump administration has issued an interpretive rule that undermines state laws forbidding the inclusion of medical debt on consumers’ credit reports. | A new interpretive rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gives new ammunition to litigation challenging state laws on medical debt in credit reports.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This move blames and harms consumers. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/trump-administration-undercuts-state-bans-medical-debt-consumer-credit-reports
David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson discuss health systems' motivations for wanting to expand their primary care footprint and whether patients will benefit from systems' expansion plans. https://www.4sighthealth.com/podcast-more-primary-care-please-11-6-25/
Podcast: More Primary Care, Please 11/6/25 - 4sight Health
David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson discuss health systems' motivations for wanting to expand their primary care footprint and whether patients will benefit from systems' expansion plans on the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson discuss health systems' motivations for wanting to expand their primary care footprint and whether patients will benefit from systems' expansion plans. https://www.4sighthealth.com/podcast-more-primary-care-please-11-6-25/
Medical debt is the direct result of arbitrarily high prices for care charged by market-immune hospitals and doctors. https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/voters-blame-insurers-medical-debt-undue-medical-debt-poll/804010/
Voters blame insurers for medical debt: poll
More than 60% of respondents said insurance companies are most at fault for medical debt, compared with just 9% who blamed hospitals, according to a survey by nonprofit Undue Medical Debt.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Medical debt is the direct result of arbitrarily high prices for care charged by market-immune hospitals and doctors. https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/voters-blame-insurers-medical-debt-undue-medical-debt-poll/804010/
With SNAP in jeopardy, 4sight Health's David Burda looks at rates of poverty, food insecurity and housing instability for healthcare workers.
https://www.4sighthealth.com/oh-snap-healthcare-workers-are-hungry-too/
https://www.4sighthealth.com/oh-snap-healthcare-workers-are-hungry-too/
Oh SNAP! Healthcare Workers Are Hungry, Too. - 4sight Health
A new study says many healthcare workers like nurses and help support workers, suffer from the same social determinants of health challenges as the public.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
With SNAP in jeopardy, 4sight Health's David Burda looks at rates of poverty, food insecurity and housing instability for healthcare workers.
https://www.4sighthealth.com/oh-snap-healthcare-workers-are-hungry-too/
https://www.4sighthealth.com/oh-snap-healthcare-workers-are-hungry-too/
This is an example of one payer using technology to counter market-immune hospitals and doctors who justify high prices for care by claiming their patients are sicker than everyone else's patients.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/blue-cross-algorithm-for-health-care-costs-infuriates-doctors/
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/blue-cross-algorithm-for-health-care-costs-infuriates-doctors/
Blue Cross plans to target doctors for overcharging. Physicians are furious
With the help of a computer algorithm, the state’s biggest health insurer says it will scrutinize and cut payments to doctors who frequently bill it for the most expensive patient visits.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is an example of one payer using technology to counter market-immune hospitals and doctors who justify high prices for care by claiming their patients are sicker than everyone else's patients.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/blue-cross-algorithm-for-health-care-costs-infuriates-doctors/
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/blue-cross-algorithm-for-health-care-costs-infuriates-doctors/
Open enrollment: If the process and outcomes are going better than usual, you can thank Swati Mathai. Find out why in 4sight Health’s David Burda’s interview with XO Health's CEO. https://www.4sighthealth.com/how-healthcare-revolutionaries-think-10-questions-with-swati-mathai/
How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Swati Mathai - 4sight Health
Healthcare Revolutionary Swati Mathai has big ideas on how to use advanced analytics to make open enrollment season easier for everyone.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Open enrollment: If the process and outcomes are going better than usual, you can thank Swati Mathai. Find out why in 4sight Health’s David Burda’s interview with XO Health's CEO. https://www.4sighthealth.com/how-healthcare-revolutionaries-think-10-questions-with-swati-mathai/
It's good to see the needle moving the right way. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-experience/patient-experience-climbs-on-hospital-c-suite-agendas-report/
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's good to see the needle moving the right way. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-experience/patient-experience-climbs-on-hospital-c-suite-agendas-report/
David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson debate whether providers and health tech companies are picking up signals that consumers want more digital health apps on 4sight Health Roundup, moderated by David Burda. https://www.4sighthealth.com/podcast-taking-consumers-digital-health-pulse-10-30-25/
Podcast: Taking Consumers' Digital Health Pulse 10/30/25 - 4sight Health
David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson debate whether providers and health tech companies are picking up signals from consumers that they want more digital health apps and websites on the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson debate whether providers and health tech companies are picking up signals that consumers want more digital health apps on 4sight Health Roundup, moderated by David Burda. https://www.4sighthealth.com/podcast-taking-consumers-digital-health-pulse-10-30-25/