Beyond Finger Pointing: The Fight to Lower Health Care Costs

In a live conversation recorded at Aspen Ideas: Health, executives from a hospital, insurer and pharmacy join a top Trump administration official and leading health economist to discuss how to collectively bring down health care costs.

Guests:

• Stephanie Carlton, Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Brendan Carr, CEO, Mount Sinai Health System
• David Cutler, Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
• Katerina Guerraz, Chief Operating Officer, Aetna; President, Aetna Medicaid
• John Love, Vice President, Amazon Pharmacy

Watch a video of this conversation at Aspen Ideas: Health, along with another conversation about medical uncertainty moderated by our host Dan Gorenstein.

This episode was produced by Ryan Levi and mixed by Andrew Parrella.

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