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Matthew Holt

@boltyboy.bsky.social
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Health Care Curmudgeon Was Health 2.0; Now @THCBStaff blog & #THCBGang Podcast AND @smackhealth health tech advisory Topics: health, tech, politics, soccer

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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The @newyorker.com says a sex tape may not make you famous any more. I released mine expecting to get famous but it was only later I discovered I was supposed to have someone else in it with me... www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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A Sex Tape Won’t Make You Famous Anymore
Influencers inspired by the Kardashian origin story seem to have drawn the wrong lessons from it.
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I just had a McDonald's Sausage biscuit with egg, hash brown and coffee for breakfast and it was delicious. Don't judge me, those flavor science peeps know their stuff
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I'm not sure half pipe snowboarding has much to do with the snowboarding I do but OMG are both the men and the women absolutely amazing and taking incredible risks. This is right on the edge -- fantastic competition
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Too few people know about this: Musk caused hundreds of thousands of deaths with DOGE by cutting USAID. More people have died because of this than in Gaza. Musk and the people involved in DOGE must be held accountable
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Amazing progress in geothermal power👇 UK Gov should now abandon its disastrous carbon capture plans, centred around building 𝗡𝗘𝗪 gas power stations fed largely by importing Trump’s #LNG which is disastrous for the climate. We’d be energy independent but it would need courage to go against Big Oil.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
It takes a special kind of hypocrisy to be Peter Thiel. A gay, immigrant billionaire who enjoys an open marriage, yet bankrolls a movement hellbent on destroying the inclusive democracy that made his life possible. He is pulling up the ladder after he climbed it
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Evergreen.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out.”
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 25/01/2026
As I said the other day, I know Steve Jobs wasn't infallible, but I'm pretty sure he would've taken a pass on this.
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Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"Regime's secret police continues executions in provincial city"
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
When did Tim Cook become such a brown nosing coward?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Certainly the armed lawless goons who got out of their car, assaulted him with pepper spray, tackled him to the ground and then drew their weapons to fire several bullets in his back had no intention of committing murder, no, not after committing murder in the same way a couple weeks ago, no ma'am
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Gestapo and Stasi didnt leave till they were evicted. We need an entire Nuremberg trial. We ignored Watergate, Iran Contra, Gitmo and the war crimes of the War on Terror & Iraq, the corruption of the 2008 financial crisis, and the many many crimes of Trump 1st administration./1
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The 6th installment of @boltyboy.bsky.social's attempt to discover why he was charged $34.94 for a preventative lab test that should have been free is up. And no, it's not the final episode in the telenovela thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...
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Brown and Toland weighs in on the $34.94 Labcorp test. (Part 6) – The Health Care Blog
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 17/12/2025
The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
So my insurance has been cancelled. Read on for the tale of his desperate attempts to figure out CoveredCA, Blue Shield of CA and the kafkaesque nightmare of American Health Insurance Cancel Culture thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...
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Health Insurance Cancel Culture – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Do you remember when Joseph McCarthy was defeated? Mike Magee does and he hopes something similar will happen again soon thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...
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Slaying The Dragon – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
There is so much bullshit about the cost of health insurance and wouldn't it be better to give everyone cash. Luckily @kimbbellard.bsky.social is here to give you a very basic math lesson thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In the great Medicare Advantage or trad Medicare FFS debate, Jeff Goldsmith has now made his choice and dumped Medicare Advantage thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...
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Farewell to Medicare Advantage – The Health Care Blog
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I really think putting staggeringly dumb rich people who are also total jerks in charge of everything was a bad call.
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Do we need fewer lawyers and more scientists in Congress? @kimbbellard.bsky.social thinks so thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11...
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Support your neighborhood scientist – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Once again America turns to @kimbbellard.bsky.social to explain all that stuff about mRNA you missed by not reading the science journals.... thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11...
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Life Is Geometry – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The ghost of EA Codman, the Boston surgeon who tried (and failed) to introduce quality scores for surgeons more than a century ago, rattled Leonard D'Avolio's cage a while back. He has thoughts thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11...
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Waiting for Codman: 100+ Years of Profits > Patients – The Health Care Blog
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Rachel Reeves says we have a £25 billion black hole Rachel Reeves knows Brexit makes us £40 billion poorer Rejoining the EU would give us a £15 billion surplus Why doesn't Labour want what's best for the UK? Tax rises? That'll be Brexit
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Phenomenal first time author on THCB today. Suhana Mishra is a student researcher in California's under-resourced central valley, and she has some great ideas for helping to get the word out the lack of access to primary care thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
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A Comprehensive Examination of Primary Care Disparities in California: Navigating the Abyss – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
@kimbbellard.bsky.social has seen the future of video gaming and he thinks it has some lessons for health care thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
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Halo, Heresy, and Health Care – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
More brilliant journalism from @radleybalko.bsky.social The awful story of how wrongful accusations destroyed a man's life. radleybalko.substack.com/p/accusing-j...
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Accusing Jordan Silverman
A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Lots more detail in here about this outrageous arrest. The guy has been in jail for weeks now for posting a quote by President Trump.
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Kim Bellard wants to keep the subsidies for the ACA, but he's wondering why THIS is the one issue that is keeping the government shut down when there are so many worse problems thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
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Trade Ya Subsidies For a Government – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
used to be my MP. A decent an honorable man -- telling the truth
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Unlike Jenrick & Badenoch, Heseltine has no wish to preside over the smoking, toxic ruins of the Conservative Party. This means he's able to tell the truth about Farage & Reform with no fear that this alienate puce-faced racists in golf-club blazers.
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Tamir Gotfried, the Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer at TytoCare came on THCB to show us how their remote device works to deliver the last few inches of telehealth. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
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TytoCare–The Last Few Inches of Telehealth? – The Health Care Blog
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
You're either with ICE or with humanity and democracy. Choose.
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Great and more timely than ever 40 years later
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
WE HAVE LIFTOFF www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
There's a flightless bird that swims well with big ambitions in creating a platform for AI in all health care enterprises. Fawad Butt & Missy Krasner from Penguin Ai came on THCB to tell why this is needed and how it will work. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
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Penguin–The Flightless Bird of Health AI – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"Opposing reproductive choice while protecting the religious freedom assured by the very same 1st Amendment is a difficult needle to thread" Medical historian Mike Magee is looking at how religion is impacting the debate over abortion via telehealth. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/10...
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Teledoc Medication Abortions Under Attack – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Such a thrill to have Stephanie Strong and her new-ish colleague Marianna Zaslavsky from Boulder Care on THCB to discuss their program, what Medicaid cuts will mean and much more thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
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Boulder Care: Stephanie Strong & Marianna Zaslavsky – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Given the complete shit show emanating from HHS under RFK Jr and his bunch of jokers, david introcaso's proposal to make it an independent body like the Fed Reserve deserves a good look thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
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HHS’s Independence: If Not Now, When? – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Patient safety expert Michael Millenson reflects on how far we have come since a cabinet secretary's father was killed by a chemotherapy overdose in 1979. Not far enough thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
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Lessons From The Medical Error That Orphaned A Cabinet Secretary – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
You may have heard from a very reputable scientific source, the President of the US or his head of the EPA, that climate change is a myth. @kimbbellard.bsky.social is here to remind you that it's not thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
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And Yet It Moves – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Help texts is a really helpful lightweight solution for those grieving a loss. Today they are introducing a calculator that shows health plans how much that grieving costs them! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
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New Bereavement Cost Calculator shows that grief is expensive – The Health Care Blog
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If the international and US domestic justice systems were working properly there would not be enough courts in which to try this guy for his various crimes nor enough jails in which to confine him after he was convicted.
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Apparently climate change is a hoax. Sadly no one told the planet that message. david introcaso is back on The Health Care Blog after a long absence to look at the response of the health care industry in cutting its carbon emissions. The news is not great..... thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
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Does American Health Care Violate the ICJ’s Recent Climate Advisory Opinion? – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It's an unbelievable and very long read but here is @radleybalko's round up of this country's descent into authoritarianism in just the PAST MONTH. Read it and weep, literally open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
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Roundup: One month of authoritarianism. Plus: Obama cites The Watch! (sort of)
Here's what happened in just one month of the Trump administration's dizzying push toward autocracy
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Ami Parekh from @includedhealth.bsky.social reports on part of the recent OBBA that has big implications for the future of telehealth especially for health plans. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
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Telehealth safe harbor: a call to action for health plans – The Health Care Blog
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Matthew Holt @boltyboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Epic has announced that its doing patient facing AI. Michael Millenson is not entirely impressed as to who the real customer is thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
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Epic’s “Emmie” Chatbot Enhances the Patient Voice – For Their *Real* Customers – The Health Care Blog
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
On February 20, 1933, about 25 of Nazi Germany’s most important businessmen met with Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring at the Reichstag Palace, and contributed 3,000,000 Reichsmarks to the regime. A few years later, some of them sponsored the concentration camps and medical experiments on prisoners.
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