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I would point out when it comes to Texas as well, just to note sort of other things you might not be thinking about.

HCA health care shares are up.

Why? Well, you're going to have Democrats in control there.

Maybe they start to offer more health care.

But look at

that.

No, we looked at HCA earlier on the idea that perhaps health care spending in states like Texas will start to increase or that we'll get more medical funding from the federal government or vote in.

Molina.

David, I'm glad you mentioned it.

Likes of HCA Healthcare, for example, up 7% on perhaps the possibility of more aid coming to citizens for their healthcare costs.

David Kelly, thank you.

Mike, of course, thank you as always.

We currently do not have metal detection or security personnel at every single entrance.

And that is something that our nurses union has been advocating for and asking for at every single tragedy that we hear about from our HCA brothers and sisters in the Kansas City area.

And what's the response you're getting to that request?

I'm getting some therapeutic listening, which is kind of a yes, that's nice.

I would like a safe workplace for all healthcare personnel.

I would like to see a safe place for patients to get care and for visitors to come visit their patients.

I would like to see metal detection at all entrances to all hospitals in the HCA family, certainly, especially in the Kansas City area.

And I would like to see a more robust security personnel screenings program at all of those entrances.

Those figures measure adoption, not proven savings, and concern predictive AI rather than generative AI alone.

In the Kaiser Foundation's May 2026 interview, AI at Scale Does It Deliver?, HCA Healthcare's Michael Schlosser emphasized evaluating the outcomes produced by people working with AI.

His account focuses on solving clinical and operational problems involving users early and monitoring performance after deployment.

So I would begin with one defined task, such as preparing appeal drafts for a particular denial category, assign a revenue cycle manager responsible for the results, supported with compliance information and technology, and the employees doing the work, and then record the current turnaround time, error rate, and cost before introducing any new tools.

And that was 23 years ago, 24 years ago, when I first started my job at Cedars Medical Center in Miami, Florida.

At the time, it was an HCA hospital, I think.

And I thought I was going to be in the emergency room for several years.

I was going to pay down some debt.

It fails because the right people aren't necessarily aligned around the work.

And after a decade at HCA, which I absolutely loved, and then... running operations and organizations to connect leaders across the industry.

All of that led me via Optum and Divita Medical Group and others to the 229 Project, where we have the ability to really foster the environment to transform healthcare together.

I also spend time coaching executives, I serve on boards, I moderate industry conversations pretty regularly.

The nurses' union is saying this death was preventable.

They are calling on – this was in the HCA system, but for the purpose of this conversation, it could be any hospital.

They are calling on that system to put up metal detectors and staff appropriately trained security at every entrance to the company's hospitals.

I'm going to say that again.