The Washington Post
To Your Health
‘Trump just met with super- influential health-care executives you ve probably never
heard of
By Ariana Eunjung Cha December 28 at 1:20 PM
President-elect Donald Trump's meeting this month with Silicon Valley's elite made headlines for its inclusion of such big names as Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Tesla Motors's Elon Musk, and Amazon's Jeffrey P. Bezos. (Bezos owns The
Washington Post.)
The group talked about a wide range of topics, including bringing jobs back to
the United States, immigration, China, cybersecurity, taxes and technology in schools.
What has been less publicized is that Trump has been holding similar meet-and-greets with other titans of industry in critical areas of the economy, including finance
and network news.
On Wednesday, his guests were health-care executives — many of whom represent companies or institutions that have a big stake in the outcome of Trump's ambitions to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. According to a pool report, the group, all men, met with him at 11 a.m. at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. They included John Noseworthy of the Mayo Clinic, Paul Rothman of Johns Hopkins Medicine, David Torchiana of Partners HealthCare and Toby Cosgrove of the Cleveland Clinic.
Noseworthy, a neurologist who is president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic, in recent
years has been an articulate commentator about health-care reform on TV shows such
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