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5 Minute Podcasts: Voices of Care

Listen to Leaders Discuss the Future of Health Care

Produced and curated by: Natalie Davis and Ashley Swearingen

BPC Action traveled around the country asking health care leaders five questions about their priorities for reforming our health care system. With this project, BPC Action intends to serve as a resource to policy makers and change-agents to enable them to understand and address the diverse needs of those that provide, pay for, and access health care across our country.

Click the map below to listen to each 5-minute interview. You will hear from state leaders, hospital and payor executives, providers, and patient advocates from all over the country.Nominate someone for an interview, use the “nominate” form below.

Hear from leaders such as:

  • Penny Wheeler of Allina Health in Minnesota on her personal interaction at a funeral and the need to focus on health disparities.
  • Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary of Health and Human Services in North Carolina on what North Carolina is facing with the opioid epidemic.
  • Brad Huerta, Chief Executive Officer at Lost Rivers Medical Center in Idaho on the issues of rural health providers face.
  • Pat Geraghty, Chief Executive Officer of Florida Blue on the importance of insurance affordability through payment of cost sharing reductions.
  • Tom Betlach, Medicaid Director in Arizona on the impact of the fragmentation of the health care system on patients.

5 Questions

Learn more about the Future of Health Care Project through our sister organization, the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Explore the map below and click on the icons to hear 5 minute stories and insights from a diverse set of leaders.