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Crossover health campaigns11/21/2023 “Whether it’s for drugs or hospital stays or physician visits, we pay top dollar relative to other countries, and often the employers who are trying to provide health insurance for their employees don’t have the leverage over the health care providers to drive lower prices.” “Probably the single most important factor that’s driving spending are the prices we pay,” Miller says, discussing the commercial health sector where our nation spends roughly $1.3 trillion each year. What followed was a 15-minute expert primer on our nation’s broken health care system. Rather, Manouse asked Miller to answer the big picture question: Why is health care in the United States so expensive, and how do we fix it? There was no talk of dual-eligibility, and pharmacy benefit managers were only mentioned in passing. The conversation stayed away from the wonky policy issues that usually dominate much of the AV health care conversation. Miller, AV's executive vice president of health care, appeared as a guest on the Houston-based radio program "Town Square with Ernie Manouse." That happened just this week when D.C.-based Mark E. can feel worlds apart, so it is always a delight when we get the AV equivalent of a "crossover" episode. Sometimes the three Arnold Ventures offices - Houston, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Evan Mintz, director of communications, writes about health care in America:
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