"Obamacare was lousy health care. Always was. It's not very good today and, what I said, that if we come up with something, we are working on things, we're going to do it and we're going to replace it." Asked in a follow-up question whether he has a plan to replace Obamacare or not, he added, “I have concepts of a plan.” He then added as a retort, that Americans should expect to hear more about this “in the not-too-distant future.”

Donald Trump – Republican Candidate for USA President – in a response to a question on what Americans should expect from a Trump Administration related to health care.

“I absolutely support — and over the last four years as vice president — private health-care options…But what we need to do is maintain and grow the Affordable Care Act.”

Kamala Harris – Democrat Candidate for USA President – in response to a question during the Presidential Debate on her change of positions from support of a government-run health care plan as Senator Harris to a less dramatic change in policy as Candidate Harris.

AI agents “will have an impact on the world at a scale that no one understands, yet much bigger than the horrific impact we've had by social media”…[For example, if you say to your LLM] “Make me a copy of TikTok. Steal all the users, steal all the music, put my preferences in it, produce this program in the next 30 seconds, release it, and in one hour, if it's not viral, do something different along the same lines.”

Eric Schmidt, Former Google CEO – in an interview with Azeem Azhar (an AI expert and thought leader) on the potential of AI agents to learn and improve themselves including the ability to text-to-action capabilities which will greatly accelerate the utility of these tools but…also, increase the likelihood of unintended consequences…

“My parents have always gotten me turtle figurines for every meet,” she revealed. “They have little sayings on them, like ‘go at your own pace’ and ‘one step at a time.’ I have one in my locker from my sister. I have a little collection of these turtles.”

Simone Biles – in an interview following her Olympic performance this year – discussed the secret to her success. She indicated hard work, dedication, and...turtles!! Yes, turtles!! Now I know who to bequeath my 500+ turtle collection to…😊

"The greatest antidote to deliberate and nefarious deception is transparency, but you can only have transparency if you can identify the AI-generated content that breaks platform rules in the first place."

Nick Clegg, Former Deputy Prime Minister, United Kingdom

“In the supermarket, we look for fish that’s sustainably raised. We are swayed by sustainable practices from hotels and retailers. So why wouldn’t the same standard apply to the most important service industry in the world, health care?”

Zameer Rizvi – in an opinion article in a recent issue of Medical Economics on The Logic of Embracing Value-Based Care”