I recently had the pleasure of being invited onto Kim Downey’s Stand Up (for) Doctors!

On August 20, benefits consulting firm Aon reported that employer healthcare costs are expected to rise 9.5 percent in 2027, pushing average spending above $19,000 per employee.

A few weeks ago, I got an invitation from the team at My Hero 360, a storytelling series from International Healthcare Media that sits down with people whose lives have been shaped by illness, healthcare, advocacy, and all the assorted indignities that come with having a human body in America.

For years, I’ve joked that nobody goes to “Cancer University” until they have to.

For 20 years, I’ve been building healthcare brands for markets that shouldn’t exist.

What happened when a podcast interview became a conversation about patients, power, money, and the constituency America forgot.

Gary Thompson and I go way back to the pre-internet salad days of 2011, when Facebook was apparently still something your aunt used to find people from high school and LinkedIn had not yet become a place where strangers explained leadership to you from airport lounges.

This week, John Oliver devoted Last Week Tonight to UnitedHealth Group, including a spectacular clip of former CEO Andrew Witty explaining our healthcare nightmare: “Nobody designed it.

Way back in what now feels like 1722, by which I mean March of 2026, a federal judge ordered UnitedHealth Group to turn over documents about an algorithm called nH Predict.

Go Bearcats!

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Last Week Tonight FTW

Bryan Bishop (1977-2026)

Way back in 1995, when we were still recovering from MC Hammer pants and nobody had yet ruined the word “disruption,” two guys in Oregon were playing racquetball when, for absolutely no good reason, they started talking like pirates.

Every institution in healthcare is organized to protect its interests. The patient is the exception.

Mark Cuban has been sitting on my book for a while now, so apparently I’m going to keep reading his healthcare opinions until he returns the favor.

There are probably healthier ways to process 30 years of navigating American healthcare.

Last week, The Hill published an essay of mine called “The Missing Constituency,” in which I made the case that American healthcare has spent decades organizing patients around almost everything except the one identity we all share.

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Or, how I accidentally sent my book to medical school.

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Get Real with Jim Weiss · Episode

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‼️ OMFG‼️

What happens after you understand how American healthcare actually works?

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Allow me to direct your indignant rage to the following.