News You Can Use: End of December 2025

December News You Can Use A Year-End Tour of Healthcare Absurdity - Broken Flux Capacitors, Robots Flying Planes, and Biff Is Running Healthcare A year-end, popcorn-worthy take on the absurdly expensive and dysfunctional drama that is U.S. healthcare; Critical look at the AI hype in healthcare, using a pyramid model that shows simple agentic AI works, while high-level predictive AI is often a wrong, opaque “black box"; A surreal reminder that robots can land planes, yet still can’t reliably explain or predict clinical conditions like sepsis; New Year predictions shift away from AI optimism toward legislative changes that may strip coverage, overwhelm ERs, and turn preventive care into a luxury amid fragmented guidance; The true modern plague: relentless LinkedIn spam and AI-driven scams, somehow more persistent than healthcare collapse itself.