-: I think it's, I really like solving problems,
but not just problems, big problems.
And I'm a root cause kind of person
where I don't like sort of addressing
the superficial issues.
I really try to understand what's happening at the root,
and because of who owns this,
and our ability to work within the systems,
we actually not only can work strongly with the,
with one of the larger payers in the country,
but very much in a collaborative way with the providers,
with regulators, with life sciences companies,
with multiple different stakeholders in the system,
to answer really complex problems
or address those issues very uniquely
and I enjoy a lot, being able to do that
and also influence where, have a pretty big influence,
on where the system goes as a whole in the United States.
Yes, I think the biggest challenge is,
is that for me, on a professional level,
is really the fact that we live
in a highly fragmented healthcare system.
So I talked, I reference to being able to work
with different collaborators, and we have a real,
we actually do have very strong relationships
with every stakeholder in every category in the system.
But often, those stakeholders don't like
working with each other in many cases.
Whether that's competitive issues
or philosophical disagreements, whatever it might be,
typically boils down to business issues,
and so we spend a lot of time navigating
around some of those issues that lead
to a high fragmented system to get them to collaborate.
So think about it this way, you know, a hospital,
one hospital often doesn't like
working with a competitive hospital,
or a hospital doesn't like working with a payer,
or a payer doesn't like
working with a certain provider group, in certain forms,
because typically, in historic system,
they've been at negotiating tables,
often or not, but it ends at that table,
negotiating in a zero-sum game.
And so there is, sort of,
trust that's become a big challenge over the years.
And it's actually regaining that trust
that's really key part of what we try to do,
and it's the hard part of this.