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Marcus & Vic discuss key economic trends - inflation, disinflation, & Wall Street bank earnings, alongside the impact of rising credit card debt & healthcare layoffs. Venture capital, particularly Series B funding, & highlight innovations in AI for healthcare, including virtual digestive care, AI-powered psychiatry, & home testing solutions. The growing role of AI in healthcare call centers & major healthcare AI partnerships addresses the future of AI & automation in the healthcare industry.

1:48 - Wall Street Posts a Strong Quarter

4:39 - Tracking layoffs, closures in healthcare nationwide

5:42 - Carta: Series A to B Chasm

11:00 - Oshi Health Secures $60M To Scale Virtual Digestive Care

12:52 - Legion Health Pivots to Digital AI-Enabled Psychiatry, Raises Over $6M

14:43 - Ash Wellness raises $10M to expand at-home testing

15:19 - Suki banks $70M to build out AI assistants for doctors, expands health system partnerships

16:36 - Parakeet Health expands AI call center, announces $3M seed round

17:53 - Digital health funding: Glooko gets $100M, appoints new CEO

18:47 - RadiantGraph raises $11M for patient engagement

20:50 - True change 'requires investment': Healthcare leaders react to new $250M Gates fund for women's health

21:59 - FTC increases premerger notification requirements despite pushback from providers

27:52 - Health Costs and Flat Raises Are Set to Squeeze Paychecks

30:51 - UnitedHealth Shares Dive After Health Giant Says 2025 Results Likely to Fall Short

32:10 - Medicaid drags Elevance Health as it misses on profit in Q3

33:05 - Medicare Plans Are Making Big Changes for 2025. Here’s How to Navigate Them.

35:31 - KFF: 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey

39:18 - Nonprofit health systems launch Longitude Health to improve performance, care delivery at scale

41:41 - Walgreens Boots Earnings

44:12 - More Children Are Depressed and Anxious. Is Social Media Really Behind It?

49:01 - Abridge, Wolters Kluwer Health ink partnership to integrate UpToDate with AI medical scribe

50:55 - Introducing healthcare agent service in Microsoft Copilot Studio

52:42 - New York Times to Bezos-Backed AI Startup: Stop Using Our Stuff

55:04 - Amazon, Databricks Strike Five-Year Deal Around AI Chips

57:06 - Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI

59:41 - Elevance Health Will Add To

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