Newsmax host suggests AI replace “like half” of hospital employees
Carl Higbie: “Stamford Hospital in Connecticut, 305 beds, 3 to 600 physicians. They have 3,800 total employees. Can't AI replace like half of them?”
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From the September 9, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Carl Higbie Frontline
CARL HIGBIE (HOST): I look at this and one of the biggest factors here — OK. Health care and RFK has been all over this. A lot of people have all been over this. One sixth of our economy is the health care system. But compensation for doctors hasn't really gone up that much. But compensation and the hiring of administrators is what's really going — check this out. Hudson Regional Hospital in New Jersey 200 beds, 800 affiliated physicians, 5,000 employees. That means most of that 4,200 is simply just administrators. Stamford Hospital in Connecticut, 305 beds, 3 to 600 physicians. They have 3,800 total employees. Can't AI replace like half of them?
SETH DENSON (GUEST): It should. And here's the other piece, Carl. So all those administrative jobs. So if I got $1,000 bill, 400 of it is going to administrative services, now. $400 dollars. So the reality is, if you look back at what the numbers looked like in the 80s, we have seen a rise in health care expenditures over 1,500%, all in that administration side of the business. And so as you're thinking about the 400% —
HIGBIE: 1,500%?
DENSON: 1,500%. And so you're looking at that and you're going, wait a minute. My health care has not gotten that much better.
HIGBIE: It's gotten worse.
DENSON: And oh, by the way, CMS says that 80%, 80% of the bills that I get are wrong. So all those administrative fees and things, those humans can't even get that right. And yet 40% of my dollars are going to that.
HIGBIE: I mean, but, you know, we saw this obviously, Rich, in Denver, a hospital almost like, went belly up because of the migrant crisis, too. I mean, they can hire as many or as few administrators as they want. However, if you have 25, 30,000 migrants not paying their emergency room bill that they're using as their primary care doctor, nothing can stay in business.
RICHARD STERN (GUEST): Oh, absolutely. But, you know, this is exactly what's going on. Is it — regulations have become the major business of every business. The reason why there's so many administrators is that there's more that they have to do to fill out government paperwork.
HIGBIE: That's true.
STERN: Than to actually save lives and take care of patients. And, you know, even AI can't figure out how to deal with government regulations. And then you're right, which is that the left keeps dumping these Third World refugees with air quotes around it into our communities, forcing those communities to pick up the tab and then sending federal dollars but only if you fulfill all of the woke stuff that the government wants to do. So fortunately, we got DOGE, we got President Trump trying to get rid of this, but we're starting near the beginning of this than the end.
HIGBIE: Well, also, and here's another one, Seth. Everyone was like, oh, China's going to run us over. They're going to win the trade war. Well, their exports went down 33% in August, while overall growth slowed to its weakest in six months. But I'm sorry China can't sustain a 33% loss, can they?
DENSON: No, they can't. And the reality is we built China in the 80s and the reality, and we have the opportunity to do it all over again. It's why President Trump needs to stay on course on getting this trade deal done. It's essential for what we need to do. We have the ability to build the next China in a partner, but it needs to be a willing partner.
HIGBIE: If we got to get rid of the environmental groups and the labor unions, and then we're off to the races.
DENSON: There we go.
HIGBIE: But until the hippies and the bureaucrats get out of the way, we got nothing.