126 - Conor McGregor for President?! How MMA Is Shaping Global Politics and U.S. Healthcare i

Vic and Marcus discuss how MMA, politics, and media are increasingly intertwined, starting with Conor McGregor’s presidential bid and the UFC's political influence. They discuss the Fed’s economic outlook, inflation, tariffs, and consumer sentiment. In healthcare, they cover CMS reforms, Medicare Advantage scrutiny, hospital mergers, FTC shakeups, and major investments in senior care, pathology, and hospital-at-home models. The episode wraps with concerns over proposed HIV funding cuts and the long-overdue reckoning with U.S. deficit spending.

00:00 - Intro

11:09 - Fed Dims Economic Outlook, Citing Uncertainty Over Tariffs WSJ
https://bit.ly/4bUrG2W

14:27 - Consumer Sentiment Tanks as Americans Expect More Pain Ahead WSJ
https://bit.ly/4bQUCJa

15:13 - Retail Sales Edge Up in February but Miss Expectations WSJ
https://bit.ly/4j9rD5V

17:08 - Trump Team Explored Simplified Plan for Reciprocal Tariffs WSJ
https://bit.ly/4iOp3C0

18:52 - Nasdaq Plans Second U.S. Headquarters in Texas WSJ
https://bit.ly/4c9oiBz

25:32 - Inspiren banks $35M to scale AI-powered senior living technology Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/4iuNMeW

26:29 - Proscia pulls in $50M for digital pathology Axios
https://bit.ly/4iRif6M

27:51 - Medalogix, Forcura Merge to Form a $1 Billion Healthcare Software Business WSJ
https://bit.ly/4it7B6p

28:52 - The Israeli Startup That Just Inked the Largest Cybersecurity Deal Ever WSJ
https://bit.ly/4iuYDpb

30:18 - GSR Ventures spins out new US branch, Informed Ventures, with tenured partners Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/4iRXnfC

31:05 - Dr. Oz describes changes he would bring to Medicare, Medicaid as CMS administrator HFMA
https://bit.ly/41PRed2

36:05 - Trump administration charts a new course at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation HFMA
https://bit.ly/41P9EdU

36:53 - Startups Prep for Potential Medicaid Cuts WSJ
https://bit.ly/4kOgtVH

39:25 - Trump fires 2 Democratic FTC commissioners, Andrew Ferguson defends decision Fierce Healthcare
bit.ly/4kU30fc

42:56 - FTC again pushes back on Indiana hospitals' 2nd merger attempt Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/4kVpGf1

46:39 - RFK Jr.'s HHS picks up Biden admin legal fight against 340B rebates Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/4kKeCRP

48:38 - Trump Administration Weighing Major Cuts to Funding for Domestic HIV Prevention WSJ
https://bit.ly/4kJKMgl

53:30 - Cigna closes $3.3B sale of Medicare plans to HCSC Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/4bTx9ac

54:06 - Employers Get Big Drug Discounts Through Program For Hospitals That Serve Poor Patients WSJ
https://bit.ly/4bWDrpI

55:40 - Highmark posts $29.4B in 2024 revenue amid ongoing rise in utilization Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/4bRvpOO

57:06 - Mass General Brigham announces $400M cancer care investment ahead of Dana-Farber split Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/4bPlCst

58:54 - DispatchHealth and Medically Home merge, creating one of nation's largest hospital-at-home providers Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/4iHvaIi

1:00:26 - Pfizer Has a New Playbook for Reviving Sales—and It’s Starting to Pay Off WSJ
https://bit.ly/4bQ0Jxp

1:01:42 - Sale of Ozempic Knockoffs Is Supposed to End Soon. Telehealth Companies Aren’t Happy. WSJ
https://bit.ly/4bOHMv3

1:03:35 - Drug Overdoses Are On the Decline, in Charts WSJ
https://bit.ly/41OdMe5

1:05:36 - ‘The Calling: A Medical School Journey’ Review: Developing Doctors on PBS WSJ
https://bit.ly/4bTxtFW

1:06:38 - Google rolls out medical records APIs, AI co-scientist at annual The Check Up event Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/4c07gFS

1:07:17 - CityMD inks multi-year partnership with Notable to integrate AI into urgent care clinics Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/41Oe9Fv

1:07:36 - EMR company Canvas Medical launches Hyperscribe, an open source AI copilot Fierce Healthcare
https://bit.ly/41XoxLk

1:08:41 - Nvidia CEO Says AI Computing Needs to Surge 100-Fold WSJ
https://bit.ly/4iuNjt8

1:11:08 - Why Most Companies Shouldn’t Have an AI Strategy WSJ
https://bit.ly/41MY4Qt

1:16:31 - Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready. NYT
https://bit.ly/4hQywYN

1:24:24 - Bojan on AGI as a prompt: X
https://bit.ly/4kSDXJm

1:25:18 - ERNIE 4.5 AI model by Baidu claims to match DeepSeek R1 at half the cost Toms
https://bit.ly/4hClFt0

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