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MedPage Today Op-Ed
May 13, 2025
I just published an op-ed piece in MedPage Today, which is an excerpt from a chapter in Health Care Nation. In many ways, health care has become America’s largest escape room.
We’ve locked our most talented health care experts and consumers in with a staggering $4.7 trillion of our own money. The problem is that we haven’t figured out how to escape the maze of convoluted policies, skewed financial incentives, and entrenched traditions that are steering amazing people and 17.3% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the wrong direction.
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