The next generation of challenges and innovation in medicine

American health care is experiencing a surge of innovation in areas ranging from maternal care to cancer treatments, while also facing new challenges such as the medical impact of more extreme climate events. Join Washington Post Live for wide-ranging conversations about health care’s most pressing challenges and the next generation of innovation in medicine.

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We weave states together by giving them money. Medicare, Medicaid, perfect examples. We wouldn’t want states to do what they do for low-income Americans, maybe they would do it themselves, but the reason they provide Medicaid to their residents is so the federal government pays a large part of Medicaid. The question will be whether Congress continues to give us the resources we need to ensure that we treat health care not as a patchwork of care but as a woven system that unites us all. Secretary Xavier Becerra (Video: Washington Post Live)

We’re trying to put a Medicaid dollar into our schools directly through the school districts and have some of their schools become health care providers. It’s a labor-intensive process. It’s not easy to check all the boxes to qualify for Medicaid. Secretary Xavier Becerra (Video: Washington Post Live)

The reason we have a declining longevity rate is because COVID has hit people so hard in some communities. And so instead of dying at 78, they died at 48. I highlight COVID because it showed us what we should have already known, which is that we have gaps in our system. There are people who do not have access to health care even though they should. COVID was perfect proof of that. Secretary Xavier Becerra (Video: Washington Post Live)

If you look at life expectancy, and certainly influenced by cancer, a black man who lives in Ward 7 or 8 has a life expectancy 22 years less than a white woman in Ward 3. That’s is a pretty little town of around 600,000 inhabitants. and that disparity, right here in the nation’s capital, is quite wide. Wayne AI Frederick (Video: Washington Post Live)

The USPSTF has just revised its guidelines again. So they revised it down from 50 to 40. It was 40, then it went back up to 50, and now it’s back to 40. We just need a clear message. Women should know that at age 25 or 30, they should have a risk assessment with their [primary care physician] to know if they are at high risk or high risk based on their family history or not. Because they may need to be examined sooner. Kathie-Ann Joseph (Video: Washington Post Live)

In our system, and in so many other countries around the world, [the] mom is forgotten, if the baby is healthy, then that’s the goal and suddenly you are alone again. More than 50 percent of deaths occur after childbirth, so we wouldn’t really be addressing this problem if we weren’t monitoring it well beyond the baby’s arrival. Christy Turlington Burns (Video: Washington Post Live)

Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services

Founder and President, Every Mother Matters

Surgical oncologist and professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery

President Emeritus, Howard University

Presenting sponsor Philips

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Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services

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