A Second Opinion with Senator Bill Frist, M.D.

Today I sit down with my good friend, Dr. Jon Perlin, President of Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer of HCA Healthcare.  For something a little different for us, Jon interviews me in a wide-ranging discussion touching on electronic health records, the 2020 election and its implications for healthcare, how coronavirus changed the world overnight, and global health diplomacy through HIV/AIDS and a government program called PEPFAR. This is a live taping at the Lake Nona Impact Forum.  Each year more than 300 of the nation’s top CEOs, health care innovators and thought leaders gather here in Lake Nona Medical City, Florida to lead the conversation on building the Wellbeing Ecosystem of the Future. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Seema Verma is the Administrator for CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She oversees the federal agency that provides vital healthcare programs to over 100 million Americans. There, she is aggressively pushing regulatory change to reduce administrative burdens on providers and improve transparency and outcomes for patients. I'm your host, Senator Bill Frist. We are broadcasting from the Lake Nona Impact Forum in Lake Nona Medical City, Florida. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

I'm excited to be joined by my good friend, Dr. Anand Parekh, who serves as chief medical advisor for the Bipartisan Policy Center. We've worked together since he joined the BPC in 2015, formulating policies related to the obesity epidemic and nutrition, domestic and global HIV/AIDS, business and public health collaboration, social isolation, rural health, and so many more issues. Anand is a board-certified internal medicine physician, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He previously served for a decade at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including as an HHS deputy assistant secretary for health from 2008 to 2015. There he played an instrumental role in the implementation of the Recovery Act's Prevention and Wellness Fund, the Affordable Care Act's prevention initiatives, and HHS Multiple Chronic Conditions initiative. His new book, Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America, was released in December, 2019. It argues that prevention must be our nation's top health policy priority.    Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Today, on A Second Opinion, we bring you our third special episode in our continuing series of providing up to date, real-time coverage on the 2019 novel coronavirus, now known as COVID19 – a global crisis that has come to the United States. We are joined by Dr. Tom Frieden,  Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 – 2017.  Dr. Frieden is a global expert on pandemics who led CDC efforts to halt the Ebola epidemic of 2014 – 2016. This is a rapidly evolving crisis and emerging pandemic, changing minute by minute.  Continue to follow the latest recommendations by the CDC.   Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

This our fourth and final episode of a special four part series where we share insights and predictions from our nation's leading healthcare economist. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Craig Garthwaite, an applied microeconomist who is the Herman R. Smith research professor in hospital and health service, and director of the program on healthcare at the Kellogg School of Management. Professor Garthwaite's research examines the effects of government policies and social phenomenon, with a focus on health and biopharmaceutical sectors. You will love his thoughts and his insights on the trade offs necessary to reduce drug prices, how US drug spending drives global innovation, and why presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' healthcare proposal is not actually Medicare for all. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

I’m here today broadcasting from the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC, where we are releasing a major report that has been three years in the making.  For listeners who may not familiar with the BPC, it is a Washington, DC-based think tank that actively fosters bipartisanship by combining the best ideas from both parties to promote health, security, and opportunity for all Americans.  Now I’m sitting down with two of my “Big 10” colleagues, Chris Jennings, who most recently served as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy and Coordinator of Health Reform under President Barack Obama, and Dr. Gail Wilensky, an economist and the director of the Medicare and Medicaid programs under President George H.W. Bush.  They are going to share how the sausage got made on this health care reform compromise, and highlight some key details in the report.    For the most up to date information on this epidemic please visit http://cdc.gov/ncov Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Today, we are bringing you a special episode focused on rural health. We're broadcasting from Nashville with a live taping entitled solving the rural healthcare puzzle, national state and provider perspectives. Our panel and discussion are organized by the Nashville Health Care Council, the premier healthcare membership association with nearly 300 members here in Nashville, and the Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington DC based think tank that actively fosters bipartisanship by combining the best ideas from both parties to promote health security and opportunity for all Americans. I'm joined on today's panel by Dr. Sarah Chouinard, rural health expert and chief medical officer of community care of West Virginia, a system of 17 federally qualified health centers operating across nine counties in rural West Virginia. Alan Levine, president and CEO of Ballad Health, an innovative integrated health care delivery system that serves 1.2 million people in 29 rural counties of Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Northwestern North Carolina and Southeastern Kentucky, and Stuart McWhorter, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration and the co-chairman of governor Bill Lee's Health Care Modernization Task Force. Our wide ranging discussion touches on workforce issues, the challenge is rural and non-urban health system space with current payment models, and what on-the-ground conditions continue to see with the ongoing opioid epidemic. Our panel puts forth solutions as well as defines the problems. For the most up to date information on this epidemic please visit http://cdc.gov/ncov Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Today, I'm excited to be joined by the brilliant Doctor David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. David's research has directly impacted state and federal health policy. He was a key advisor in the formulation of Romneycare, advised presidential candidates on healthcare spending including Barack Obama, and played a leading role in the formulation of the recent cost control legislation in Massachusetts. He also served on the Council of Economic Advisors and the National Economic Council during the Clinton administration and has held positions at the NIH, National Academy if Sciences, and currently at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Cutler is beloved by his students for his outstanding mentorship. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Today on A Second Opinion, we bring you our second special episode in our continuing series of providing up to date coverage on the 2019 novel coronavirus.  On February 7th I spoke with Dr. Jay Butler, the Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Butler has had extensive experience with serious global outbreaks. He directed CDC's 2009 H1N1 pandemic vaccine task force, which achieved emergency vaccination of more than 80 million Americans. Dr Butler's update includes what the public needs to know about this new strain of coronavirus. We are taping on the afternoon of February 7th, 2020. This is a rapidly changing situation and some of the data and developments shared in this interview may have changed by the time you hear this. For the most up to date information on this epidemic please visit http://cdc.gov/ncov Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

Today, on A Second Opinion, we bring you a special episode outside of our regular Monday show schedule to provide up to date coverage on the 2019 novel coronavirus.  In this episode we cover all you need to know about this threatening virus, including policy, health and innovation. Answer all the basic questions, including how dangerous the virus is to you and your family, where it came from and how fast it’s spreading, what symptoms to watch out for, and how different it is from the routine seasonal flu on the one hand and measles on the other. For the most up to date information on this epidemic please visit http://cdc.gov/ncov Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram