#healthsector

https://realeconomy.rsmus.com/healthcare-industry-trend-watch-week-of-july-20-2026/

Maybe those of us with working Edison machines can get an adapter kit for our machines.
That would give us the added ability to do Alzheimer's diagnosis, in addition to the standard suite of tests we can do now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5y85e8d2xo

Healthcare marketers love to talk about the “Four Ps” — Product, Price, Place, Promotion — as if patients were shoppers and hospitals were department stores. It’s a neat framework, but it conveniently ignores the one thing most responsible for Americans’ suffering: the system itself.

Nowhere in the glossy brochures or strategic plans will you hear about the forces that actually make people sick, broke, and broken. Not the staggering prices set by hospital monopolies, the insurance denials that delay care, or the dr-g costs that rival mortgage payments. Not the administrative maze that swallows billions while offering little in the way of better outcomes.

Marketing can tell you where to get care, but not why care is so hard to afford. It can promise convenience, but not accountability. It can craft messages about “patient experience,” but never about why the experience so often ends in medical debt.

The problem isn’t that healthcare marketing is shallow — it’s that the system it serves is. Until we confront the perverse incentives that reward treating illness over preventing it, or profit over public health, no amount of branding will fix what’s fundamentally broken.

Americans don’t need better healthcare marketing.
They need a healthcare system that doesn’t need marketing at all.

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is preparing to lay off 22 people in December.

The move comes in response to expected federal and state funding cuts, said Kenny Via, a spokesperson for the public health agency.

https://www.knkx.org/public-health/2025-11-20/tacoma-pierce-county-health-department-prepares-for-layoffs

Was expecting to hear something today but apparently it was business as usual

Providers were told of a meeting today, just yesterday. Most were let go, others moved to other clinics.

All of Imaging gone in San Antonio and specialists.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved one step closer to his goal of dismantling the nation’s premier public-health agency by dismissing more than 1,000 scientists, doctors and public health officials from the Department of Health and Human Services late Friday night.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/cdc-rfk-jr-shutdown-layoffs-goal-rcna237035

Hazel Health, a San Francisco-based pediatric behavioral health provider, has laid off about 11 percent of its staff. The company partners with schools in nearly 20 states to deliver virtual therapy for students and said the layoffs are part of a restructuring to support long-term growth while integrating AI and automation tools.

The company emphasized that no clinicians were affected by the cuts. Hazel said the move will help it maintain efficient and sustainable care delivery as it continues expanding services for students, families, and schools.

Hazel Health has pursued high-profile partnerships in recent years, including a 2023 deal with Los Angeles County to expand behavioral health services for 1.3 million children and a 2024 partnership with UnitedHealthcare to help cover the cost of school-based mental health programs. The company has also attracted significant investment, raising $51.5 million in 2022 and another $34.5 million earlier in 2025.

Profit margins above human lives.
Policies written, lives disposed,
They stamp it cold

If you lack compassion you no longer belong in healthcare. For those who wish to make a change and got an order to RTO maybe blast a song off YouTube. The Dusty Show DDD glam version. Have it play over team meetings and for the love of god actually think bigger, this company, system and country is corrupted. Things need to change. Don’t harm anyone or burn any buildings, that shouldn’t even be said. Strike on the day of the supposed layoffs or how about every Thursday if you have enough PTO just take off.

Kind of funny. Many "onshore" employees working at Medical Solutions are from Omaha, Nebraska. Not a shore to be seen. Middle of the United States. 🤦‍♀️

Any thoughts on Magellan Health getting rid of all Health plans? I heard they will be getting more Public Sector Accounts. How does Magellan Health do layoffs?