I am on a mission to make health insurance obsolete. In my book Health Care: Meet the American Dream, I describe how advancements in genetics and predictive analytics will enable us to project the diseases and conditions we'll develop over the course of our lives. We can then determine the cost to pay providers directly for our health care. The plan empowers us to live healthier lives. I’ll discuss why the system needs such dramatic change and outline the challenges to bringing the idea to life.

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