Healthcare’s Nepotism Problem in the time of a Pandemic

The response to Covid-19 in the United States will depend on having world-class healthcare administration to support the efforts of medical professionals in the front lines. This alarms me, as my 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry has taught me that healthcare administration on both the provider and payer sides of the equation has been rotting from nepotism and incompetence for years.

Towards the end of my career, I became increasingly worried as I noted that Vice Presidents and C-level executives in healthcare weren’t…