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Modernizing America’s Health Care System Starts With Early Detection

Modernizing America’s Health Care System Starts With Early Detection
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Chronic disease is driving costs, crushing families, and overwhelming public programs. And yet, Medicare—the backbone of health care for seniors—still operates like it’s 1995: reactive, bureaucratic, and far too often late to the game.

David Mansdoerfer
David Mansdoerfer
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David Mansdoerfer is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and currently serves as an adjunct professor in health policy and politics at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.