Election 2024: The future of health care

Adam Boehler is founder and managing partner of Rubicon Founders, a healthcare investment firm based in Nashville, TN. He is also the former chief executive officer of U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and the former director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, where he worked on value-based care for the United States. His government service also includes serving as senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He was a founding member of Operation Warp Speed and also a negotiator in the historic Abraham Accords. Boehler has founded three healthcare companies, including Landmark Health, a large national provider of home-based medical care. He holds a BS from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bob Kocher is a partner at Venrock and focuses on healthcare IT and services investments. He currently serves on the boards of Devoted Health, Virta Health, Aledade, Lyra Health, Need, Accompany Health, Candid, and Premera Blue Cross.  He is a board observer at Stride, Suki, SmithRx, and The Public Health Company. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and a nonresident senior fellow and advisory board member at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California, also serving on the advisory board of the National Institute of Healthcare Management (NIHCM). Prior to Venrock, Bob served in the Obama administration as special assistant to the president for healthcare and economic policy on the National Economic Council and as a partner at McKinsey & Company. Kocher holds a BA and BS in political science and zoology from the University of Washington and an MD from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Vivian Riefberg, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is a professor of practice at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, where she holds a David C. Walentas Jefferson Scholars Chair. She retired as a senior partner with McKinsey & Company after 31 years with the management consulting firm. At Darden, Riefberg focuses on health care, consulting, and strategy across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. She focuses on senior executive leadership with a particular focus on leading in uncertainty and solutions in health care. Riefberg is a frequent speaker at conferences, including the World Economic Forum at Davos, and is a contributor to leading industry publications on improving U.S. health care, addressing government productivity, and women’s leadership. She holds a BA from Harvard-Radcliffe College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.