Amy Feldman
@amyfeldman7.bsky.social
Forbes senior editor covering healthcare. Email afeldman@forbes.com, signal amyfeldman.33
You can’t pay for health insurance with an FSA. And if you get cancer or need surgery and don’t have insurance, your FSA won’t come close to covering the bill.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
You can’t pay for health insurance with an FSA. And if you get cancer or need surgery and don’t have insurance, your FSA won’t come close to covering the bill.
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Interesting story from @forbes.com @amyfeldman7.bsky.social on IPO of a biotech company doing non-invasive prenatal tests. up next: new diagnostic products including those that could be used in early detection of cancer, one of the holy grails of testing.
Today’s hot IPO: a medical diagnostics company that hit $5.8B market cap after share soared 80%+ @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
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Diagnostics Company BillionToOne Valued At $5.8 Billion In Public Offering
Turkish immigrant Oguzhan Atay started the company in 2016 with a focus on prenatal testing. Now, he’s expanding to cancer tests.
www.forbes.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Interesting story from @forbes.com @amyfeldman7.bsky.social on IPO of a biotech company doing non-invasive prenatal tests. up next: new diagnostic products including those that could be used in early detection of cancer, one of the holy grails of testing.
Today’s hot IPO: a medical diagnostics company that hit $5.8B market cap after share soared 80%+ @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
Diagnostics Company BillionToOne Valued At $5.8 Billion In Public Offering
Turkish immigrant Oguzhan Atay started the company in 2016 with a focus on prenatal testing. Now, he’s expanding to cancer tests.
www.forbes.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Today’s hot IPO: a medical diagnostics company that hit $5.8B market cap after share soared 80%+ @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social
—the multibillion dollar battle for Metsera’s obesity drugs
—SNAP benefit cuts are harmful to health
—the FDA’s top drug regulator is out
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
—the multibillion dollar battle for Metsera’s obesity drugs
—SNAP benefit cuts are harmful to health
—the FDA’s top drug regulator is out
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
The Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle For Metsera
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the battle for Metsera, the departure of FDA’s top drug regulator, Kimberly-Clark’s $40 billion Kenvue deal, and more.
www.forbes.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social
—the multibillion dollar battle for Metsera’s obesity drugs
—SNAP benefit cuts are harmful to health
—the FDA’s top drug regulator is out
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
—the multibillion dollar battle for Metsera’s obesity drugs
—SNAP benefit cuts are harmful to health
—the FDA’s top drug regulator is out
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
Reposted by Amy Feldman
New edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, is here. In it, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I take a look at:
🧠 What to know about President Trump's cognitive test.
💻 New Nvidia collaborations in healthcare.
🤖 How robots can save time and manpower at hospitals
And more!
🧠 What to know about President Trump's cognitive test.
💻 New Nvidia collaborations in healthcare.
🤖 How robots can save time and manpower at hospitals
And more!
What To Know About President Trump’s Cognitive Test
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look Nvidia’s collaborations in life sciences and drug development, Cobot’s hospital robots, and more.
www.forbes.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
New edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, is here. In it, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I take a look at:
🧠 What to know about President Trump's cognitive test.
💻 New Nvidia collaborations in healthcare.
🤖 How robots can save time and manpower at hospitals
And more!
🧠 What to know about President Trump's cognitive test.
💻 New Nvidia collaborations in healthcare.
🤖 How robots can save time and manpower at hospitals
And more!
Reposted by Amy Feldman
@bsky.app If you get your coverage through an ACA Marketplace--or just want to why tax subsidies are such a big issue in the government shutdown--a great explainer. Particularly scary for early retirees. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...
The Big Changes To ACA Premiums At The Heart Of The Government Shutdown
Health care coverage through the Marketplaces will be more expensive in 2026. Premiums are going up and the enhanced premium tax credits are scheduled to expire.
www.forbes.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@bsky.app If you get your coverage through an ACA Marketplace--or just want to why tax subsidies are such a big issue in the government shutdown--a great explainer. Particularly scary for early retirees. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...
At least 420 state bills attacking public health protections like vaccination, fluoridation and milk safety
apnews.com/article/vacc...
apnews.com/article/vacc...
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
apnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
At least 420 state bills attacking public health protections like vaccination, fluoridation and milk safety
apnews.com/article/vacc...
apnews.com/article/vacc...
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In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at:
—new drugs for tough-to-treat cancers
—AI chatbots for the elderly
—a high-tech chair for cancer radiation therapy
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
—new drugs for tough-to-treat cancers
—AI chatbots for the elderly
—a high-tech chair for cancer radiation therapy
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
New Drugs Show Promise In Tough-To-Treat Cancers
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at a high-tech chair that could revolutionize cancer radiation therapy, AI chatbots for seniors and more.
www.forbes.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If you want to get the newsletter first, sign up here (it’s free) @forbes.com www.forbes.com/newsletter/i...
In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at:
—new drugs for tough-to-treat cancers
—AI chatbots for the elderly
—a high-tech chair for cancer radiation therapy
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
—new drugs for tough-to-treat cancers
—AI chatbots for the elderly
—a high-tech chair for cancer radiation therapy
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
New Drugs Show Promise In Tough-To-Treat Cancers
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at a high-tech chair that could revolutionize cancer radiation therapy, AI chatbots for seniors and more.
www.forbes.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at:
—new drugs for tough-to-treat cancers
—AI chatbots for the elderly
—a high-tech chair for cancer radiation therapy
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
—new drugs for tough-to-treat cancers
—AI chatbots for the elderly
—a high-tech chair for cancer radiation therapy
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
Reposted by Amy Feldman
Older adults across the country are turning to AI companions to help deal with loneliness. We visited a senior care facility in the Bronx and spoke with residents about their experience speaking to AI bots. With @richardnieva.bsky.social.
www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship
The AI boom has brought with it a new crop of startups looking to build a business on an urgent but vaguely dystopian idea: solving loneliness among the elderly.
www.forbes.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Older adults across the country are turning to AI companions to help deal with loneliness. We visited a senior care facility in the Bronx and spoke with residents about their experience speaking to AI bots. With @richardnieva.bsky.social.
www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
OpenEvidence’s Daniel Nadler, now worth $3.6B after raising new funds $6B valuation, says the company’s ultimate goal isn’t just to help doctors find existing medical research, but to create medical superintelligence. New from me & @rashis.bsky.social at @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
OpenEvidence’s Daniel Nadler $1.3 Billion Richer In Just Three Months After The AI Startup Hits $6 Billion Valuation
OpenEvidence, which Forbes profiled in July, has been signing up users fast. Its ultimate goal: To not just help doctors find existing medical research, but to create medical superintelligence.
www.forbes.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
OpenEvidence’s Daniel Nadler, now worth $3.6B after raising new funds $6B valuation, says the company’s ultimate goal isn’t just to help doctors find existing medical research, but to create medical superintelligence. New from me & @rashis.bsky.social at @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
With OpenEvidence reportedly raising at $6B valuation, re-upping our profile from July @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
OpenEvidence Cofounder Daniel Nadler Is Now A Billionaire
Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.
www.forbes.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
With OpenEvidence reportedly raising at $6B valuation, re-upping our profile from July @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
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🚨SCOOP🚨 DHS ordered OpenAI to identify a user who'd made 2 specific prompts.
User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent.
First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent.
First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts
First known warrant of its kind reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide identifying information on anyone who enters specific prompts.
www.forbes.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🚨SCOOP🚨 DHS ordered OpenAI to identify a user who'd made 2 specific prompts.
User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent.
First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent.
First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
Startup Sage Care — with founders from rideOS and Carbon Health — is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding to build an air-traffic control system for healthcare. New from me @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
How Two Ride-Share Guys And An ER Doc Are Building An Air Traffic Control System For Healthcare
Startup Sage Care is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding and customers that include Bronson Healthcare and White Plains Hospital.
www.forbes.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Startup Sage Care — with founders from rideOS and Carbon Health — is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding to build an air-traffic control system for healthcare. New from me @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
Could a high-tech treatment chair and scanner help increase access to an important cancer therapy?
“We are just not getting the proton therapy to patients. The reason is 100% cost.”
“We are just not getting the proton therapy to patients. The reason is 100% cost.”
My latest @forbes.com daily cover profiles startup Leo Cancer Care, which is transforming cancer radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals are buying dozens of its chairs.
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
How A High-Tech Chair Could Revolutionize Cancer Radiation Therapy
Startup Leo Cancer Care is transforming proton radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals that include Stanford and McLaren are lining up to bu...
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Could a high-tech treatment chair and scanner help increase access to an important cancer therapy?
“We are just not getting the proton therapy to patients. The reason is 100% cost.”
“We are just not getting the proton therapy to patients. The reason is 100% cost.”
❤️ The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
❤️ The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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The FT commissioned a poll of Trump voters, finding that most thought that the president had made less than $100 million while in office, and a third thought he hadn't made anything from the presidency.
His net worth has, in fact, gone up by billions. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
His net worth has, in fact, gone up by billions. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
www.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The FT commissioned a poll of Trump voters, finding that most thought that the president had made less than $100 million while in office, and a third thought he hadn't made anything from the presidency.
His net worth has, in fact, gone up by billions. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
His net worth has, in fact, gone up by billions. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
My latest @forbes.com daily cover profiles startup Leo Cancer Care, which is transforming cancer radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals are buying dozens of its chairs.
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
How A High-Tech Chair Could Revolutionize Cancer Radiation Therapy
Startup Leo Cancer Care is transforming proton radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals that include Stanford and McLaren are lining up to bu...
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My latest @forbes.com daily cover profiles startup Leo Cancer Care, which is transforming cancer radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals are buying dozens of its chairs.
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
“It certainly costs a lot less money to partner with Cleveland Clinic than to buy a hospital, and it comes with less strings attached and less brain damage.”
In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at
—the Cleveland Clinic-Khosla partnership on healthtech
—Town Hall Ventures’ new fund
—CDC’s ‘Friday night massacre’
—Boehringer’s new drug for pulmonary fibrosis
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
—the Cleveland Clinic-Khosla partnership on healthtech
—Town Hall Ventures’ new fund
—CDC’s ‘Friday night massacre’
—Boehringer’s new drug for pulmonary fibrosis
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
Khosla Ventures And Cleveland Clinic Partner On Healthcare Tech
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Town Hall Ventures’ $440 million haul, the CDC’s “Friday night massacre,” Boehringer’s new lung drug, and more.
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“It certainly costs a lot less money to partner with Cleveland Clinic than to buy a hospital, and it comes with less strings attached and less brain damage.”
Reposted by Amy Feldman
(AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/pent...
@apnews.com
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October 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
(AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/pent...
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/pent...
In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at
—the Cleveland Clinic-Khosla partnership on healthtech
—Town Hall Ventures’ new fund
—CDC’s ‘Friday night massacre’
—Boehringer’s new drug for pulmonary fibrosis
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
—the Cleveland Clinic-Khosla partnership on healthtech
—Town Hall Ventures’ new fund
—CDC’s ‘Friday night massacre’
—Boehringer’s new drug for pulmonary fibrosis
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
Khosla Ventures And Cleveland Clinic Partner On Healthcare Tech
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Town Hall Ventures’ $440 million haul, the CDC’s “Friday night massacre,” Boehringer’s new lung drug, and more.
www.forbes.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at
—the Cleveland Clinic-Khosla partnership on healthtech
—Town Hall Ventures’ new fund
—CDC’s ‘Friday night massacre’
—Boehringer’s new drug for pulmonary fibrosis
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
—the Cleveland Clinic-Khosla partnership on healthtech
—Town Hall Ventures’ new fund
—CDC’s ‘Friday night massacre’
—Boehringer’s new drug for pulmonary fibrosis
—and more!
www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
Andy Slavitt’s Town Hall Ventures has been investing in healthcare innovations focused on low-income and vulnerable communities. With $440M new funding from investors that include John Doerr, it now has total assets of $1.4 billion.
New from me @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
New from me @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
Medicare Administrator Turned Health Venture Capitalist Raises $440 Million For New Fund
Andy Slavitt’s Town Hall Ventures has been investing in healthcare innovations focused on low-income and vulnerable communities. With new funding from investors that include John Doerr, it now has tot...
www.forbes.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Andy Slavitt’s Town Hall Ventures has been investing in healthcare innovations focused on low-income and vulnerable communities. With $440M new funding from investors that include John Doerr, it now has total assets of $1.4 billion.
New from me @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
New from me @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
Reposted by Amy Feldman
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇