Ep 36: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel on Why Healthcare Reform is so Hard and the Future of Hospitals

Jacob sits down with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel again to discuss the future of health policy and care delivery, hyped innovations in healthcare, market trends among payers and providers, and more. 

(0:00) intro

(0:57) generative AI

(4:08) the ethics of NOT using AI

(7:04) ML-based risk adjustment

(11:46) why didn’t hospitals become payers?

(19:37) what does the future of hospitals look like?

(26:15) can insurance cover mental health treatment for everybody?

(29:45) GLP-1s

(35:02) the future of healthcare policy

(41:07) what should we be learning from the way other countries do healthcare?

(45:57) Ben Franklin

(49:37) Zeke Bar update

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