81 - Dr. Kavita Patel on How Healthcare Can Help Reopen Schools

This episode is brought to you by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Blue Shield companies are supporting health care partners on the frontline of this unprecedented fight. Ensuring patients don't have to worry about costs. Caring when it counts the most, for the Health of America.

Dr. Kavita Patel is a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a practicing primary care physician in Washington, DC. She previously served in the Obama Administration as a senior aide to Valerie Jarrett, where she played a critical role in health reform, financial regulatory reform, and economic recovery policies.

Dr. Patel also has a deep understanding of Capitol Hill from her time spent on the late Senator Ted Kennedy's staff as deputy staff director for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Kavita and I have worked together for years, including at the Bipartisan Policy Center and The Aspen Group, and she always has her finger on the pulse when it comes to the latest on healthcare policy. Today, we're placing a timely focus on how healthcare can help schools reopen safely.