Read the pitch deck a Y Combinator-backed startup used to raise $3.6 million to bring AI agents to the doctor's office

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WashU alums Tej Seelamsetty and Aumesh Misra cofounded Tivara.

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Can you easily see a doctor, or is it a struggle? Tell us your healthcare story.

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Business Insider wants to hear about your healthcare experience.

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'Big Short' Michael Burry compares Molina to Warren Buffett's Geico, saying he'd acquire the insurer if he had the cash

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Michael Burry, the investor of "The Big Short" fame.

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On the menu for Luigi Mangione's Christmas in jail: a 'delicious' Cornish game hen

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No network? No problem. How I built an AI startup at 18 with teens around the world.

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Alex Yang founded a startup with other high schoolers he met online.

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Healthcare VCs predict more AI transparency investment, private equity M&A, and a quiet year for IPOs in 2026

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2025 to 2026: Healthcare predictions

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This first-of-its-kind map shows C-section rates of more than 1,700 hospitals. The differences are stark.

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At Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas, doctors performed C-sections on half of all women with low-risk pregnancies — first-time mothers at full term, carrying a single baby positioned head-down — on average, in a seven-year period.

Millionaires are rethinking where they move — soaring private healthcare costs are redrawing the global map

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The sun sets on the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City as seagulls fly over the Hudson River on December 4, 2025, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Millionaires are rethinking where to live as soaring private healthcare costs reshape the world's most desirable destinations, according to Henley & Partners.

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How Business Insider investigated C-sections at over 1,700 American hospitals

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C-section rates vary drastically between neighboring hospitals. Our data suggests financial pressures play a role.

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In the spring of 2016, obstetrician Dr. Jesanna Cooper's practice hired a nurse-midwife to deliver babies at Princeton Baptist Medical Center, a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. The nurse-midwife was the center's first in about 20 years.

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