“The Times They Are a-Changin’.” This is a song meant to wake people up to their new reality written by the great Bob Dylan in 1964. Like all amazing art – it is standing the test of time. Indeed, today’s hottest young movie star (Timothée Chalamet) plays Bob Dylan in a new movie called A Complete Unknown. Worth a trip to the movie theater. And just wait until I reprint some of the lyrics of that song in the One Thoughtful Paragraph below. It will blow your mind a little bit.
In the meantime, this is the news we are expecting in 2025 that prove times are a-changin’:
- We Can’t Kill All The Lawyers Yet. After the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the Chevron deference to federal agencies to interpret ambiguous laws based on their expertise, we are going to see how times have changed for ACA preventive services, the FTC’s enforcement power over PBMs, and if the federal government has the power to set prescription drug prices.
- The “Department of Government Efficiency” is Likely To Change Things. DOGE is also looking to use the elimination of the Chevron doctrine as leverage to reduce the federal government’s power over industry via regulation.
- The Future of Health Care is Technology. If you don’t think tech solutions are going to fundamentally change things in the healthcare system, maybe go to Las Vegas next week. Not to gamble, but to witness the Consumer Technology Association hosting thousands of its closest health industry friends to showcase how the system is incorporating AI, digital therapeutics, and wearables to create solutions for women’s health, workforce shortages, and aging-in-place.
These are the Bob Dylan lyrics from his song The Times They Are a-Changin’ that are kind of unbelievable as we approach the four-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6:
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin’
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’
But we won’t leave you on that somber note. Bob Dylan was well-loved by the U.S. Supreme Court too – and we mention this because both former Justice Scalia and current Chief Justice Roberts quoted Dylan in their decisions. It is Justice Scalia that said “times they are a-changin’” to make fun of the majority’s decision in a privacy case. It was an employment law case about whether an employee had an expectation of privacy in his pager’s text messages. The Court sidestepped the main question out of a concern that technology was advancing so rapidly that it might come ahead of the decision. Ha. Well, the times are certainly changing in the healthcare sector, particularly when thinking about how new technologies impact the privacy and security of electronic health information. The Maverick team just summarized the new HHS Office of Civil Rights proposed rule on cybersecurity (a summary that you would have if you subscribed to MyMaverick, here). Times are a-changin’ alright.
