Politico November 6, 2023
When it comes to the future of health care in the U.S., two of the secretaries of Health and Human Services from the Biden and Trump administrations agree on the generalities but not the specifics.
How so? Speaking together at the 2023 Milken Institute Future of Health Summit in Washington today, HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra and his predecessor, Alex Azar, compared the current health system to Benjamin Franklin’s famous “Join or Die” cartoon depicting a snake cut in pieces.
The point was that the myriad players in health care, from insurers to providers, need to better coordinate their efforts around the patient — from cost to outcomes.
“Calling it a system is an overstatement,” Azar said, explaining that the HHS...
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