What Robert Wachter thinks about America

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Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF who writes about patient safety, hospital medicine and technology in healthcare. Author of A Giant Leap (2026). Writes Pattern Recognition, a newsletter on healthcare AI.

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1. 15 Oct 2026

   Our readingThe debate over healthcare rationing in the U.S. will become politicized as AI tradeoffs become explicit.

   Their wordsAs these tradeoffs become explicit, we can expect a vigorous debate about rationing. And in the U.S., we can guarantee it will be politicized.

   ↗Robert Wachterrobertwachter.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece