It started with a conversation over dinner, three doctors mulling over a perplexing question: why is the U.S. healthcare system run by politicians instead of people with clinical expertise?
Unlike in law and financial services, there is no independent board – no high court or central bank – that provides oversight of the complex U.S. healthcare industry. Instead, healthcare policy is set at the Cabinet level, under the Department of Health and Human Services.
And consider this: Only four physicians have ever been named to head HHS (and not a single nurse or other healthcare professional.