Marty Makary
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939 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 May
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After several meetings, they adopted the proposal.
This turned into the surprise billing executive order, I believe it was.
That was secondary to the main initiative, which was the Health and Human Services rule on price transparency.
For the first time,
requiring hospitals to post prices for services, including cash prices.
It was signed as an executive order by President Trump, and it took a few years to kick in.
And that was the basis of the relationships that I had developed with the healthcare team in the White House that I think opened the door to this invitation.
The first calls I got
were asking me for recommendations for different jobs in the health agencies.
And so we started a running dialogue.
Then they came to me and said, what do you think about running the FDA?
They had looked at all my research and found that it was really a good fit for this particular agency.
No, I was eager.
I thought this is the most amazing opportunity in the world.
I mean, you can have such a big impact on the world.
In the operating room, I'm impacting one person.
And in my research, maybe hundreds or thousands of people.
But this is so much bigger.
They are still very big priorities in what we do.
We have a tremendous opportunity to lower drug prices for everyday Americans.
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