Relentless Health Value

Okay … let me get real here for a sec. For a few reasons, I wanted to chat with Vivek Garg, MD, MBA. Dr. Garg is CMO (chief medical officer) of primary care at Humana. Dr. Garg is an inspiring and incredibly articulate individual, and I like to both learn from and also be kept on my toes by the likes of such folks. But also, yeah, I’m suspicious of vertically consolidated payers. I mean, you listen to this podcast. I don’t need to recap what the financialization of the healthcare industry has done to patient care. But you heard my manifesto in episode 400. It’s about trying to find the right path forward and being open to exploring options here. It’s considering what doing well by doing good actually means. It’s contemplating whether to celebrate some good stuff going on in the industry even if there’s some not-so-good stuff going on in that same sector or even in that same company. Bottom line: We’re living in the real world here, and utopia is not on the table, at least anytime soon. So, that means there is