How do you know “the field is wide open” in the first place?
It seems to take a lot of political influence to get any change pushed through at all… even for minor technical amendments to regulation, which suggests it is a very closed field for anyone not willing to spend a lifetime of their political capital (and that of their closest million friends) on it.
Martin Makary who was an advocate for price transparency in healthcare got head of the FDA. While the quality of many of the changes implemented by the Trump administration is debatable, the field feels clearly shaken up and open in a way it wasn’t for a long time.
After an unknown amount of political influence was expended…. so I don’t really see how this is useful information, unless there’s some way to know all the players involved and approximately gauge the influence expended for each?
I don’t think “expending political influence” is a good model. If you manage to work with anyone to get any policy passed, in the process of doing that work you will build relationships that help you pass other policies in the future.
Currently, US healthcare policy is at a place where there’s more potential for change then there was for a long time.
How do you know “the field is wide open” in the first place?
It seems to take a lot of political influence to get any change pushed through at all… even for minor technical amendments to regulation, which suggests it is a very closed field for anyone not willing to spend a lifetime of their political capital (and that of their closest million friends) on it.
Martin Makary who was an advocate for price transparency in healthcare got head of the FDA. While the quality of many of the changes implemented by the Trump administration is debatable, the field feels clearly shaken up and open in a way it wasn’t for a long time.
After an unknown amount of political influence was expended…. so I don’t really see how this is useful information, unless there’s some way to know all the players involved and approximately gauge the influence expended for each?
I don’t think “expending political influence” is a good model. If you manage to work with anyone to get any policy passed, in the process of doing that work you will build relationships that help you pass other policies in the future.
Currently, US healthcare policy is at a place where there’s more potential for change then there was for a long time.