At the 2017 Forbes Healthcare Summit, I interviewed Seema Verma, Administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about her policy agenda. CMS is one of the most important agencies in the federal government, administering programs spending over a trillion dollars a year, including Obamacare. Verma spoke about fellow Indianan Alex Azar, President Trump's nominee for the post of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. She talked about the opioid crisis, and how to modernize the Medicare and Medicaid programs and empower patients to take charge of their own health care. In that capacity, did a lot of different things, so worked with state governments, helping them design innovative programs.

Source: Forbes December 05, 2017 21:22 UTC