Brainerd Dispatch November 7, 2019
Mayo analysis of influencers list shows executives crowding out space held by policy experts, officeholders, academics
ROCHESTER, Minn. — As recently as 2002, the most influential people in health care worked for either the federal government or as experts in health policy. The parties topping a list for that year’s 100 most influential persons in the field included two cabinet officers, two senators, a member of congress, two policy organization heads, one professor and two CEO’s.
By 2018, all but one of those slots had been replaced by CEO’s.
Among those topping the latest installment of the influential Modern Healthcare power index are the corporate heads of Amazon, Apple, Aetna, Humana, CVS and Minnetonka, Minn.-based United Health/Optum.
According to new...