FHC #232: Can GLP-1s & GenAI solve healthcare...

The midterm elections are over. But for Americans struggling to afford medical care, the biggest questions remain unanswered. Family health insurance premiums now average approximately $28,000 annually for employer-sponsored coverage, up 26% in five years. Workers are paying more ...  Show more

American healthcare is approaching an economic reckoning. Or, better yet, a doomsday clock. Spending now exceeds $5.7 trillion annually, medical costs continue to climb and millions of families are struggling to afford care. Yet the people who may be best positioned to improve th ...  Show more

How the system pays doctors can change healthcare outcomes—sometimes in scary ways. The way docs are paid can make patients sicker…or can lead to healthier ones. The payment schemes most docs work under incentivize them to fix patients, while others motivate them to prevent illne ...  Show more

Doctors working in general practice have never faced such challenges as they do today – and yet there’s a perception that they’re just not working hard enough. The reality, says this week’s guest, is there are fewer doctors and resources and soaring patient numbers with increasin ...  Show more

Surgeon, professor, and author Dr. Marty Makary discusses accountability in health care and how technological advances are changing the way physicians practice medicine and empower patients. This episode is part of a Health IT series by the AMA-MSS Committee on Health Information ...  Show more