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The Healer Revolution: A Call to Restore the Soul of Healthcare
Healthcare does not lack talent.It does not lack intelligence.It does not lack dedication. What it increasingly lacks is cultural alignment around its deepest identity. The Healer Revolution begins with a simple but profound conviction:Every person in healthcare is already a healer. They have simply forgotten. From physicians to security officers.From environmental services to executive leadership.From…
The 2026 Healthcare Crisis Isn’t About Wages—It’s About the Soul of Healing
Right now, nearly 46,000 nurses are on strike across America. In New York City, 15,000 nurses have entered their third week on the picket lines at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian. Yesterday, 31,000 more walked off the job at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California and Hawaii. This is the largest simultaneous healthcare labor action in…
Common Sense at 250
250 years ago today, a penniless pamphleteer changed the world with one dangerous idea: Name what everyone feels, but no one dares say. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense hit Philadelphia on January 10, 1776. It sold 120,000 copies in three months — in a nation of 2.5 million. Adjusted for population, that is 16 million copies in three…
Forget your resolution. You need a revolution.
Today, millions of Americans woke up to healthcare premiums that doubled overnight. The ACA enhanced tax credits expired at midnight — and with them, the illusion that our system is sustainable. This is entropy in action. In physics, entropy is the universe’s inexorable pull toward disorder. In healthcare, it’s the 114% premium spikes, the 55%…
Healthcare’s Hardest Prescription
Eight days until Christmas. Permission granted to actually rest. There’s something beautifully ironic about healthcare workers — the very people who tell others to rest, hydrate, and take care of themselves — being the worst at following their own advice. So here’s my simple message as we close out this year: You don’t have to…
Courage Over Certainty: Leading Through Healthcare’s Next Policy Shock
Healthcare leaders will not get policy certainty before they have to make critical decisions. That’s the hard truth as I watch today’s Senate showdown over ACA subsidies. Both proposals—Democratic subsidy extension and Republican HSA alternative—will likely fail. The subsidy cliff is still coming. And even when Congress strikes a deal, it will be temporary, fragile,…
The Chatbot Paradox in Healthcare
When patients choose AI over their doctor, we’re not facing a technology problem—we’re facing a human connection crisis. Recent reporting reveals that 1 in 6 adults now regularly consult AI chatbots like ChatGPT for medical information — rising to 1 in 4 among adults under 30. But here’s another thing keeping me up at night:…
Brent Venables Built Something That Can’t Be Bought
By Richie Splitt Friday night’s College Football Playoff loss to Alabama stung. But as a lifelong Sooner fan, I walked away from that game extremely proud of this team. Coach Brent Venables built something this season that transcends the final score. A 10-2 regular season. A defense ranked in the nation’s top ten. And a…
The Healthcare Clock We’re Not Watching: What America’s Health Crisis Needs Now
A real-time visual reminder might be exactly what we need to drive meaningful change Watching the White House announce sweeping changes to GLP-1 drug pricing today, I found myself fixated not on the policy details, but on something appearing for the first time on my screen: a real-time “Travel Alert” tracking flight delays and cancellations…
The Great Opt-Out: When Above-and-Beyond Becomes Optional
The 2025-2026 college football bowl season is delivering a stunning verdict: loyalty is dead, and the free market has won. Entire teams — Notre Dame, Iowa State, Kansas State — are declining bowl invitations for the first time in modern history. Star players are sitting out. Coaches are being fired mid-season, while others leave for…