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I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I've worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and essential contribution they are making to our mission.

My focus has always been on connecting with consumers in a meaningful way.

Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on.

Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.

I want to give consumers way more choices in health care. Choice and competition always drive down costs better than central control.

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.