The Trump Administration is moving ahead with plans to integrate medical artificial intelligence (AI) into the U.S. health care system. Officials are greenlighting efforts to allow AI agents to diagnose and prescribe medications and therapies to patients. However, some stakeholders and veteran HHS regulators worry that top officials are allowing the tech industry too much latitude in rolling out AI medical providers, despite no experience in federal health policy.
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
Thursday Links – 17 September 2026
- Words of wisdom on AI: “At the moment, it seems safe to say Congress has neither enough time nor bravery – let alone enough thoughtful policy development – to regulate the pace of advances.”
- How much should Medicare pay for AI care?
- Where did all the hurricane’s go?
- Urban Institute: Up to 2.3 million young adults ages 19 to 24 could lose Medicaid under the Big Beautiful Bill.
- NBER Study: The ACA had no effect on mortality, nationwide. Medicaid expansion (which is mostly what the CA did): no effect. ACA without Medicaid expansion: a positive effect.
Wednesday Links – 16 September 2026
- More men are single; and they are unhappy.
- The importance of “Polanyi knowledge.”
- How the AI industry is thinking about slowing the pace of AI development.
- Update on the nursing shortage: There are still plenty of registered nurses in the United States, enough to fill most empty positions, but there’s a shortage of jobs they’re willing to take.
- Why America is running out of doctors.
Tuesday Links – 15 September 2026
- What they teach teachers in Grad school: progressivism.
- Why aren’t the school systems of other states as good as good as Mississippi’s? Answer: Teacher unions.
- For start-up companies, tax incentives matter.
- Yglesias’s plan to control AL: It’s “all incredibly challenging and moderately unlikely.”
- Best health care work places for innovators.