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For the first time in decades, people are having real conversations about health care, “from the ground up,” says Dr. Toyin Ajayi. That has her feeling optimistic.
“We’re in a moment where health and health care — and what it means to be healthy — is the subject of a national discussion,” the co-founder and chief executive officer of Cityblock Health told CNBC Senior Media & Tech Correspondent Julia Boorstin in the latest episode of the “CNBC Changemakers and Power Players” podcast.
“I’ve never seen that,” Ajayi said.
Amid cuts in federal funding for scientific research, the introduction of polarizing policies under President Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a charged political debate over how the U.S. funds health care that precipitated the longest U.S. government shutdown on record, this sort of optimism might seem counter-intuitive.
