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Sep 26, 2019

In this health care podcast, I speak with Lee Lewis, who is the newly minted chief strategy officer at the Health Transformation Alliance, otherwise known as the HTA. The HTA is a group of 50 major corporations that have come together in an alliance to do one thing: fix our broken health care system.

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Sep 19, 2019

Here’s one fact of life that’s always true: It will always be the desire of big vested interests to maintain and stick with the status quo. This applies to all of the various parties in the drug supply chain as much as it does to any other industry. So, here’s the $106-billion-a-year question: In 2019 or 2020,...


Sep 12, 2019

In this health care podcast, I speak with Dr. Marty Makary about his new book, which is entitled The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It. I could not recommend this book more highly. It’s a page turner for hospital execs trying to do the right thing, employers trying to do right by their...


Sep 5, 2019

There are 65,000 community pharmacies in the United States today, and the total cost to locate, staff, and operate these pharmacies is about 9% of our total national drug spending. That’s less than 1% of our national health expenditure—and falling. This is despite the fact that about 85% of our nation’s something...