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Health:Further

Health:Further

De : Marcus Whitney & Vic Gatto
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Every week, healthcare VCs and Jumpstart Health Investors co-founders Vic Gatto and Marcus Whitney review and unpack the happenings in US Healthcare, finance, technology and policy. With a firm belief that our healthcare system is doomed without entrepreneurship, they work through the mud to find the jewels, highlight headwinds and tailwinds, and bring on the smartest guests to fill in the gaps.

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    • 175 - Why Health Insurance Is Becoming Unaffordable for the Middle Class

      175 - Why Health Insurance Is Becoming Unaffordable for the Middle Class
      Jan 31 2026
      Vic and Marcus break down the ripple effects of a major winter storm in Nashville before covering a wide range of healthcare and tech developments, including rising ACA premiums as subsidies expire, corporate layoffs and their impact on insurance markets, venture funding for virtual autism therapy, Medicare Advantage rate pressure, insurer earnings declines, strong performance from major health systems, the growth of direct-to-consumer healthcare brands, Amazon and One Medical’s expansion into at-home diagnostics, consolidation in employer-sponsored primary care, the long-term realities of GLP-1 weight loss drugs, new FDA-approved treatments for presbyopia, Tether’s aggressive gold accumulation strategy, rapid advances in AI agents, open-source frontier models, and the economic and societal implications of accelerating artificial intelligence.Links00:00 - Intro4:23 - Health Insurance Is Now More Expensive Than the Mortgage for These Americans WSJ9:09 - Amazon to Lay Off Around 16,000 Corporate Employees WSJ10:50 - AnswersNow Raises $40M to Expand Access to Autism Therapy MedCity16:50 - Trump Administration Proposes Keeping Steady the Rates Medicare Pays Insurers WSJ18:02 - Investors Assumed Medicare Advantage Was Safe Under the GOP. They Were Wrong. WSJ22:39 - UnitedHealth revenue climbs in 2025, though profit continues to fall Healthcare Dive23:33 - Elevance Health sets 'prudent' 2026 guidance as it navigates ongoing cost, utilization pressures Fierce Healthcare25:06 - HCA Healthcare unveils bullish 2026 guidance despite $600M-$900M ACA exchanges hit Fierce Healthcare26:16 - Cleveland Clinic CEO: Budget overperformance in 2025 paves way for growth Fierce Healthcare28:02 - Hims & Hers uses another Super Bowl ad to tackle healthcare affordability Fierce Healthcare33:13 -At-home testing company Reperio teams up with Amazon One Medical on preventive care Fierce Healthcare34:34 - Employer-focused primary care companies Premise Health, Crossover Health announce merger plans Fierce Healthcare37:10 - Here’s What Happens when you stop taking Ozempic and Wegovy (Wall Street)39:28 - Presbyopia Eye Drop From Startup Tenpoint Gets FDA Approval (Medcity News)41:29 - Tether is buying up to $1 billion of gold per month and storing it in a 'James Bond' bunker CoinDesk45:26 - The Adolescence of Technology Dario Amodei 51:51 - Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues Register56:00 - Moonshot AI releases open-source Kimi K2.5 model with 1T parameters Silicon Angle
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    • 174 - Why Executives Are Winning With AI While Workers See Nothing

      174 - Why Executives Are Winning With AI While Workers See Nothing
      Jan 24 2026

      Vic hosts a solo episode covering volatility in the stock market tied to geopolitical tensions, a detailed breakdown of 2025 inflation data and how price increases vary by consumer category, congressional movement on healthcare funding and PBM reform, proposed multi-year extensions for telehealth and hospital-at-home programs, ARPA-H’s call for AI-driven cardiovascular care solutions, UnitedHealthcare’s plan to rebate ACA profits to members, the New York Stock Exchange’s move toward tokenized 24/7 trading, Amazon’s launch of an AI health assistant for One Medical members, and new survey data revealing a widening gap between how executives and workers experience productivity gains from AI.

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      00:58 - Stocks Rally After Trump Announces Framework for Greenland Deal WSJ

      1:51 - The 2025 Inflation Numbers Are Finally In. Here’s the Good and Bad News. WSJ

      3:48 - The Trump administration is creating clinical AI agents with a 3-year FDA approval timeline Fierce Healthcare

      4:40 - Telehealth, hospital-at-home set to receive multiyear extensions in recent funding proposal Feirce Healthcare

      6:44 - UnitedHealth CEO Hemsley says insurer will rebate ACA profits to consumers Fierce Healthcare

      8:15 - NYSE to Launch 24/7 Trading Platform for Blockchain-Based Securities WSJ

      10:11 - Amazon launches health AI chatbot for One Medical members Healthcare Dive

      11:50 - CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. WSJ
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      17 min
    • 173 - The $5 Trillion Healthcare Problem and Why AI Is Stepping In

      173 - The $5 Trillion Healthcare Problem and Why AI Is Stepping In
      Jan 17 2026
      Vic is joined by guest host Paul Kappelman to break down the latest signals shaping healthcare and the economy, including inflation trends, slowing job growth, housing market movement, healthcare spending exceeding $5 trillion, Medicare Advantage investigations, payer scrutiny, hospital labor strikes, and major pharma M&A. The episode also covers at-home cancer care, digital health’s growing divide, new federal healthcare proposals, shifting nutrition guidelines, flu treatment advances, data interoperability battles, and how AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic are beginning to reshape clinical workflows, consumer health access, and everyday work.4:12 - Pace of Inflation Held Steady in December; Consumer Prices Up 2.7% on Year WSJ5:19 - America’s Job Market Has Entered the Slow Lane WSJ7:54 - Home Sales in December Jump 5.1%, Biggest Gain in Nearly 2 Years WSJ10:26 - This Startup Wants to Bring Cancer Patients' Care at Home WSJ15:44 - 2025 year-end digital health funding overview: A tale of two markets Rock Health13:51 - US healthcare spending climbed 7.2% in 2024: 8 things to know Beckers17:55 - White House: The Great Healthcare Plan White House website20:58 - RFK Jr.-Backed Dietary Guidelines Say to Avoid Processed Foods, Double Protein WSJ22:19 - UnitedHealth Used Aggressive Tactics to Boost Medicare Payments, Senate Report Finds WSJ23:56 - Kaiser Permanente to pay $556M to settle Medicare Advantage fraud claims Fierce Healthcare25:24 - UnitedHealthcare unveils pilot to accelerate payments to rural hospitals Fierce Healthcare26:15 - Nearly 15,000 Nurses Go on Strike at Major New York City Hospitals NYTN/A - Walmart Launches Digital Healthcare Platform to Cut Prices on Some Health Items WSJ27:48 - Epic sues health information network over alleged medical record misuse Healthcare Dive31:58 - Boston Scientific to snap up thrombectomy specialist Penumbra in deal valued at $14.5B Fierce Healthcare33:09 - The Flu Is Surging. How Antivirals Can Help. WSJ35:22 - Polymarket, Dow Jones Partner to Display Prediction-Markets Data in Dow Jones Content WSJ37:33Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences Anthropic website38:32 - Example Claude for MRI Interpretation X40:10 - OpenAI acquires healthcare startup Torch to build out ChatGPT Health Fierce HealthcareN/A - OpenEvidence makes the case for AI-powered 'medical super-intelligence' Fierce Healthcare42:17 - Google Gemini Partnership With Apple Will Go Beyond Siri Revamp MacRumors44:00 - Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code Tech Crunch44:49 - Claude Cowork X
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