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Ep 20: Andy Slavitt on Optum’s Evolution and Lessons from Obamacare and COVID

Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan

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The Importance of Predictability in Business

When these things work best, it's like the government setting up a new program. But now that you have 75% of Medicaid recipients on in managed care plan, I think there will be limits to that. Every time there is a change they figure out how to make even more money. We should set policy, pay people to improve their lives and improve quality of life. The opposite happened because these companies are clever game players.

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