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- Milken Institute58 min
Poised to Break the Bank: Paying for Chronic Disease
Allison, Anand, Tom, Nancy, Paul Davis, Eric, Michael Golinkoff, John Rother, Megan Golden, Jess Leifer, Stephanie Cousins
A multi-sector consensus addresses the $2.4 trillion annual burden of chronic U.S. diseases by implementing interventions like Geisinger's Food Pharmacy, which reduces healthcare costs by aligning patient acuity with intensive lifestyle support. While capitated payment models and digital innovations such as Omada Health improve scalability and outcomes, structural barriers including payer misalignment and low screening rates for prediabetes necessitate policy shifts toward sugar taxes and multi-payer funding. Concurrently, the medical landscape is pivoting from opioid reliance to holistic pain management and gene therapies, with academic institutions like Kaiser Permanente adapting curricula to prioritize prevention and address the mental health needs of 74% of employees.
- Milken Institute7 min
Is the US Gathering Steam: Remarks on the Government Shutdown
Driven by a fractured political deadlock between House Speaker Paul Ryan and Tea Party factions, the U.S. faces a projected two-week government shutdown and a looming October debt ceiling crisis that threatens to compromise the nation's credit rating. While these domestic governance failures stem from record-low official approval ratings and unsustainable monetary policies, the economic fallout manifests as frozen corporate capital spending and delayed major infrastructure projects. Concurrently, the economic outlook is further strained by a slowdown in Chinese and European markets that is causing U.S. exports to plummet, leaving the domestic economy vulnerable despite significant historical fiscal interventions.