Healthcare Finance News September 13, 2019
If you had asked me before the start of last night’s Democratic debate which of the 10 candidates would have the most insightful soundbite on healthcare, I think I would have had nine answers to give you before I got to Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur who has run a largely one-note campaign based on the notion of a universal basic income.
Yet toward the end of the three-hour spectacle, I was shocked to hear Yang become, to my knowledge and memory, the first candidate in any of the three debates to allude to a topic that those of us immersed in the healthcare finance industry discuss every day: value-based care.
“Now, I am Asian, so I know a lot of...