Managed Healthcare Executive January 20, 2021
Deposing the ‘Emperor of All Maladies’ will take a diverse toolkit, not a single moonshot.
On the campaign trail, President-elect Joe Biden repeatedly promised that as president he’d lead America to a massive healthcare victory — not over COVID, but over cancer. “I promise you if I’m elected president, you’re going to see the single most important thing that changes America,” he said. “We’re gonna cure cancer.”
That promise drew fire from oncologists, who rightly pointed out that cancer isn’t a single disease — and that in fact, we’re already curing cancers every single day. That’s not to detract from the importance of Biden’s commitment to tackling cancer. But to achieve results, we’ll need to think bigger...