Politico March 20, 2025
WASHINGTON WATCH
The new policy arm of San Francisco-based venture capital firm General Catalyst wants lawmakers to clear the way for technological innovation as a way to fix the broken U.S. health care system. That’s the message of its first policy paper — an idea the Trump administration may embrace.
“If you close your eyes and say, what’s the perfect health system 40 years from now, you would actually say one where people don’t have to go to the hospital, because we just keep them healthy, because that’s ultimately what the consumer wants,” Hemant Taneja, General Catalyst’s CEO, told Ruth.
Background: Last year, the firm launched the General Catalyst Institute to work more closely with governments worldwide, an unusual move...