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Jan 7, 2025, 17:51

Sachin Jain: Promoting affordability and access in health insurance industry

Sachin Jain, President and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Almost everyone who works in the health insurance industry believes they are promoting affordability and access to care.

It is clear that what the health insurance industry believes about itself matters little to an angry public whose bitter outrage was unmasked following United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s unforgivable murder.

They are outraged that health insurers pay inadequately for needed services.

They are outraged that health insurers deny or delay necessary services in pursuit of profits.

And they and their doctors are outraged and fatigued by the non-stop battle with insurers to obtain coverage for what they need to live.

How we got here requires a complicated tour of the history of US healthcare policy – but ‘how’ matters little right now. What’s clearer than ever is that health insurers need to quickly rebuild trust with the American public.

From where will this trust come? It starts with ending the denial. And saying out loud: ‘We messed up.’

In my latest Forbes column, I articulate a path forward for the troubled US health insurance industry.”

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Sachin H. Jain is the President and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.

He also serves as a Board Member at The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, an Academic Hospitalist (WOC) at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and a Board Member at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). He is also a board member of Omada Health.