How AI could bring Mayo-quality health care to everyone

AxiosAugust 16, 2026en

My wife, Autumn, has spent nearly a quarter of the past four years in ERs and hospitals, untangling and battling three chronic conditions — and a shamefully broken U.S. medical system. We live in Washington, D.C., with top-rated hospitals in our backyard. Yet her experience has been eye-opening and often horrifying, especially for a nation that spends twice as much on medical care as our rivals. What it's like: ERs so hauntingly jammed she's often stacked like cargo in hallways, on a stretcher, waiting double-digit hours for care. Well-intentioned and often talented nurses overwhelmed and overworked. Doctors forbidden from, or uninterested in, working with experts beyond their domain to solv

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