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• ↓ One in Two Americans Who Have Used AI Believe They Can Address Health Concerns At Least As Well As Health Care Providers – The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer Look at AI, Health Care, and Trust
• ↓ In 2027, Employers Will Face the Highest Health Benefit Cost Increases Since 2003 – Is This the Beginning of Workplace Health Erosion?
• ↓ When the Cost of Food is a Health Risk: Dollar Stores, Tariffs, Family Meals, and the Rising Cost of Food
• ↓ A Bullish Market for Wearables and the Health-Driven Consumer
• ↓ How Kroger and Instacart Are Delivering Food as Medicine, and Medicine with Food
• ↓ The Cost of Healthcare for Retirees in America Hit $185,500 for a Person Retiring in 2026 – Welcome to Fidelity Investment’s 25th Annual Report
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"Consumers have placed their personal physicians above all health care touchpoints in their lives when it comes to trust stewards of and for health care information and data protection. More consumers have adopted the use of AI in every day life across many life flows, including their health care. The latest riff from the annual Edelman Trust Barometer 2026 highlights a look into health and trust in concert with the Yale School of Public Health. And they found that among AI users, one-half think AI can address their health concerns at least as well as doctors can."

"Bloomberg, Deloitte, Disney, Starbucks, and Zoom all announced plans to cut health care benefits looking toward 2027 business plans.               Whether this is a blip in the 80+ year old story of the unique employer-sponsored health care market in America or the beginning of a long end-game for U.S. health insurance at the workplace remains to be seen. But the forecasts of near-double-digit health premium increases employers will confront in 2027 are potent, forcing companies to, at least, re-visit and alter health benefit designs to surgically target specific cost-increasing categories — such as GLP-1"

"“Shoppers are feeling less control of their spending on food and more concerned about food prices than in February 2026.” Researchers with The Food Industry Association discussed their latest research into U.S. consumers’ worries about food prices’ impacts on family meals this week, and their findings comport with what I see happening in peoples’ self-care choices at-home directly impacting nutrition as well as adjacent areas of retail health and home health life-flows. This data point meshes with trends in geopolitics, home economics, and consumers’ growing demand for self-care outside of traditional “front doors” compelling me to call-out the health risks"

"The forecasts for wearable tech for health range from a state of “war” innovators to a consumer-led bull market for quantifying selves across a range of measures. There is a growing array of options for health-driven consumers across a spectrum of goals and applications, and varying levels of clinical evidence. In this post, I’ll discuss the current (fast-moving and -morphing) state of the wearable tech-health market, following up with implications for consumers, caregivers, and health citiznes-at-large.           Let’s start with the forecast from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which held a webinar on their latest annual"

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One in Two Americans Who Have Used AI Believe They Can Address Health Concerns At Least As Well As Health Care Providers – The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer Look at AI, Health Care, and Trust

In 2027, Employers Will Face the Highest Health Benefit Cost Increases Since 2003 – Is This the Beginning of Workplace Health Erosion?

When the Cost of Food is a Health Risk: Dollar Stores, Tariffs, Family Meals, and the Rising Cost of Food

A Bullish Market for Wearables and the Health-Driven Consumer

How Kroger and Instacart Are Delivering Food as Medicine, and Medicine with Food

The Cost of Healthcare for Retirees in America Hit $185,500 for a Person Retiring in 2026 – Welcome to Fidelity Investment’s 25th Annual Report