It was a banner day in the East Room of the White House, where the nation’s health care problems were supposedly solved by corralling Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and a few other names pulled straight from the stock tickers.
The event was billed as a bold step toward fixing America’s medical records mess. What it looked like was a corporate mixer disguised as public policy, the kind where your cholesterol is just another data point in a quarterly earnings report.
President Trump took the podium to announce his administration’s latest crowd-pleaser: a “revolutionary” health records system built on “industry-wide standards” and designed to let Americans take their medical data on the road.
He promised: “We will save time, we will save money, and most importantly, we will save lives.”
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