By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
From Obama’s budget guy to the CEO of Financial Advisory at Lazard (which recently consulted on the CVS-Aetna merger), Peter Orzag is more than qualified to weigh in on what can be done to bend the $3.5 trillion dollar healthcare cost curve in the US. This interview kicks off with Orzag confessing that he’s skeptical that the “consumerization’ of healthcare – the idea that shopping around for care – is going to be enough to do it. Is vertical integration like that CVS-Aetna merger the answer then? Tune in for one (really smart) economist’s take…
Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.
Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.
