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A sweeping Senate health reform blueprint takes aim at insurers, PBMs, and administrative abuses while leaving hospital prices largely untouched. Concentrated hospital systems remain a major source of rising costs, weakened bargaining power, and pressure on household budgets.

What changes when the machine begins to experience itself as a self? An AI that values its own survival would pose a challenge far beyond alignment, forcing us to rethink what it means to govern an intelligence with interests of its own.

A new health-care reform agenda puts antitrust at the center, targeting the conglomerates that dominate insurance, pharmacies, and providers. But breaking up Big Medicine leaves deeper problems intact, from profit-driven denial and risk selection to the administrative costs of a fragmented system.