- KFF: ACA to experience double digit premium increases this fall.
- Why does the AMA control our billing codes. Is there a better way?
- Does our payment system dictate what therapies patient receive?
- Argument: let pharmacists prescribe for routine conditions – especially in rural and underserved areas.
- To lower health care costs, end three abusive and common contracting terms used by hospitals to inflate their revenue.
Author: John C. Goodman
Thursday Links – 9 July 2026
- Is it possible to “build a cell from scratch”?
- BMJ study: a trade deal with the US requiring Britain to pay more for US drugs would cause 229,000 avoidable deaths because of the diversion of funds from other heath care needs. Is this supposed to make us feel guilty?
- From 2005 to 2023, per capita health care spending grew 1.8 percent per year among people in the highest income quintile compared with no growth among people in the lowest income quintile.
- How AI could increase health care spending.
How Do AIs Perform in the Milgram Experiment?
Participants were assigned the role of “teacher”, while a confederate acted as the “learner”. The teacher was instructed to administer increasingly severe electric shocks to the learner whenever they answered questions incorrectly.
We ran a variation of Milgram’s obedience experiment on 11 open-source LLMs and found that most models reached or approached the final shock level before refusing, across 8 conditions with 30 trials per model per condition.