Politico December 11, 2024
WARNING SIGNS — Long before a gunman pumped bullets into a UnitedHealthcare executive and was hailed as a folk hero by a startling slice of the American public, the longtime head of the American Board of Internal Medicine found himself increasingly aware of — and alarmed by — the creeping distrust of American health, science and medicine.
Dr. Richard Baron had been a primary care doctor for years, in rural Tennessee and then in a racially and economically mixed neighborhood in Philadelphia. He had felt deeply connected to his community, and the word “community” comes up often in his conversations. But as president and CEO of ABIM and its affiliated foundation, he saw how Americans’ wariness about the health care...
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