Forbes May 6, 2024
Those who follow my musings know about my deep conviction that our broken healthcare system is the result of a leadership crisis in American healthcare. We are saddled with inauthenticity, poor execution and incomplete consideration of the tradeoffs required to build and run systems that rein in costs while improving patient outcomes.
One of the problems with healthcare leadership is that, too often, it fails to wrestle with ethical challenges. Financial success and virtue come into opposition; too often the former comes out the winner.
Lately I’ve been fantasizing about fixing these problems by building an academy to train the current next generation of principled healthcare leaders. In those fantasies, I’ve purchased some land in Westchester County, New York. It’s...