Hill November 26, 2018
Health care was what Americans listed as their number-one concern as they cast their ballots in this month’s midterms, but don’t expect Congress to take any meaningful steps to reform the industry next year, former Permanente Medical Group CEO Robert Pearl said Monday.
“I’m not that optimistic,” Pearl said in an interview on Hill.TV’s morning show, “Rising.”
According to Pearl, who is also a member of Stanford University’s business and medical school faculties, the way America’s health care system is structured should be blamed for why making major changes is so difficult.
“Too many people are making too much money. In the last quarter, the number-one sector that rose was the health industry profits,” he said. “The drug companies don’t...
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