Hayden Rook-Lay

Hayden Rook-Lay, a lawyer and senior fellow at Brown University with expertise in health care consolidation, dives into the complexities of America's skyrocketing health care costs. He explains how the Affordable Care Act expanded coverage but failed to address core financial drivers. Rook-Lay also critiques the rapid increase of employer-sponsored insurance relative to wages and discusses the inefficiencies stemming from corporate ownership in health care. He offers potential solutions like price controls and stresses the need to reform governance and ownership for lasting change.