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Even a master seer would have problems predicting what will occur in healthcare in 2025 In my last blog, I gave you my healthcare year-in-review for 2024. After that, as I always do each year, I play Nostradamus to prognosticate about what will happen in the next twelve months in the world of healthcare. Despite my Irish last name, I do have French blood (well, 50% French Canadien, so I count it). But I don’t claim to be an oracle or seer like our 16th century physician, apothecary, and astrologer friend. I do take a page from Nostradamus, though, in that my healthcare predictions for 2025 (not really prophecies) will be sometimes deliberately vague (they include a lot of mays, coulds, shoulds, perhaps, likelys and possibles) so as to amass a reasonable record for those tracking and putting together my forecasting report card for the history books. It also tends to make my

A busy year in healthcare with insurer woes and a presidential election that brought changing political winds As is my tradition at year’s end, I reflect back on all that occurred in healthcare in the year. It was a big year in healthcare and the election portends another massive one next year. I will have my 2025 predictions blog on Thursday. So, here are the major healthcare happenings from 2024. You can go to various blogs at the blog tab to learn more. In a few instances, I call out good blogs to go back to as well. NHED shows robust healthcare growth National healthcare expenditure data (NHED) was published for 2023. Costs rose 7.6% from 2022 to 2023 and reached almost $4.9 trillion. This made spending on healthcare expeditures hit 17.6% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Healthcare expenditure will consume almost one-fifth of the economy by 2032. Insurer