Alex and Dana explore AI, patient behavior, and the gap between technological innovation and meaningful health outcomes.

Technology may transform how care is delivered, but therapists' ability to influence human behavior could be their most enduring value.

Dana (00:09) Hey Alex, nice to see ya.

Alex (00:11) Always great to see you, Dana.

Dana (00:13) It's been a while since we've had a chat, just the two of us,

Alex (00:16) So let's talk about the latest events in healthcare policy over the last couple of months. It's been a while. let's also review and just quickly touch on the physician fee schedule final rule that is coming out in the next couple of weeks. And we will set the groundwork for the next couple of months because we have a couple of really exciting guests, and future proof PT lives on. So long live the future proof PT.

Dana (00:38) Well, I maybe a good way to start is say we're filming here on October twenty-second, early in the morning, and we have the midterm elections coming up. Yay.

Alex (00:49) Mm-hmm.

Dana (00:50) Very exciting. And when I was younger, I never paid any attention to the midterm elections. But now that I work in health policy, I pay a lot of attention And these are probably

Alex (00:59) Yeah.

Dana (01:00) gonna change the

The power dynamic, it looks like at this point a good likelihood that the House will flip and the House is really the

part of Congress that is controlled by the majority.

you know, we've seen a lot of big things happening. But if the House does flip, then we're going to have a time when the Democrats are probably going to do a lot of oversight over the administration seriously. And they have a lot of things that they they want to hear from the administration about.

But regardless, we have a a different party in the presidency and so, there'll probably be a lot of gridlock. and as usual, hard to get things done.

Alex (01:36) Yeah. It it's an interesting it's it's a pendular swing where we we go from a party in governance that doesn't really ask for permission, just acts, and then the next swing is gonna be a gridlock based on too much analysis. But why don't we take a Charlie Munger's inversion logic? and what is the highest probability of failure? So when the Democrats t potentially take the House and the Senate, w what do you see as the highest form of risk to the healthcare policy from that specific

Change.

Dana (02:03) depends on whose risk we're talking about.

Alex (02:06) Not true.