Affable and engaging, the new HHS secretary is a staunch conservative who says ACA coverage is “useless” because of high deductibles and that the GOP has something better to offer.
The new CMS administrator made her reputation in Indiana with a Medicaid program that she says has “strong personal responsibility mechanisms” built in, including monthly fees.
After penning a book that slams greed, waste, and confusion in health care, Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, is in a position to push back as editor-in-chief of the increasingly influential Kaiser Health News.
Conservative? Definitely. James Capretta is the first Milton Friedman Chair at the American Enterprise Institute. But he says partisanship makes health care unstable, politically and otherwise.
The president and CEO of Chicago-based HCSC made tough decisions to raise premiums and narrow networks. But, at least for now, HCSC plans to stay in the ACA exchanges while other insurers are jumping ship.
Whatever happens to the ACA, says this upbeat doctor-policymaker-entrepreneur, it was only the beginning of health care’s transformation. But will this version of better health care mean pink slips?