Dr. David Shulkin
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 27 Nov
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I'm glad to be with you today, man.
I think that all of us that spend our time in health care understand how complicated this is.
And if you now bring this up to a political level where people that don't spend their time in health care but are responsible for making policy for the country, take a look at it.
They're frustrated, too.
And I think what we're seeing here is very interesting.
The recent shutdown, the continued debates have really focused on ACA subsidies, but
What ACA subsidies really are are a band-aid to a broken system that's really become unaffordable and non-sustainable.
And unfortunately, what we're seeing is that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have a plan for comprehensive reform to fix this system.
And in fact, the last time that we had a holistic view of the system was back in 2009 with the advent of Obamacare, which means that we're really looking at thinking that developed in
2006 to 2008, if policy happened in 2009.
And so what we're seeing is 15 years of really not addressing the systemic problems in the health care system.
And I think that's where this frustration is boiling over.
And that's what we're seeing right now.
Yeah.
Well, first of all, I think we are going to get there on some type of agreement on the subsidies because in the absence of a plan, the subsidies are the only thing that are going to provide some type of transition to hopefully a better system.
And so what really needs to happen is we need to be able to have the political will to recognize that the current system of paying
for units of care for the country simply isn't working.
And what we really need to do is to transition to a reimbursement system at the policy level that begins to take away the intense fragmentation of our system.
That means that providers
look at their job differently and are paid differently than payers who are paid differently and look at their job differently than pharmaceutical and device manufacturers who look at it differently than technology providers and service providers in the healthcare industry.
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