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10 Newsmaking Conversations from Aspen Ideas: Health 2024
![Aspen Ideas: Health Closing Session](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/43030c8f-3f87-43e9-a2a1-f35ca0aab1c1/240623_closing_010.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=1532%2C0%2C1774%2C2659&w=400)
Featuring inspiring conversations, the closing session is not to be missed. First, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Jennifer Ashton of ABC News explore the loneliness epi...
![Primary Care Evolves](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/4f14ce17-8da1-460c-b731-84ee43c88e77/53810016421_30e688c17a_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C4651%2C2618&w=400)
There is clear evidence that broader, more equitable access to primary care generates better health outcomes. But the traditional paradigm—seeing a family doctor in the office...
![Getting Candid About Mental Health: Senator John Fetterman Opens Up](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/5dc1631c-435f-4b49-b6f5-56666e816b22/53808552448_98231ab3fa_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C345%2C5773%2C3240&w=400)
John Fetterman was campaigning for the US Senate when he suffered a near-fatal stroke. Fortunate that a visiting physician was on duty in a nearby rural hospital, Fetterman su...
![CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Talks about Costs, Coverage, Access and Innovation](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/4e94aede-649f-4d83-bd42-c006070650d4/53808779490_80be4a8e4b_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C5124%2C2886&w=400)
The 3M’s—Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces—cover more than 160 million people across the country, nearly...
![On the Docket: How the Courts Shape Our Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/74d298fa-f1af-4eae-af1d-3dbabcde1ec8/53807853165_2e4e385b95_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=2714%2C0%2C3674%2C5504&w=400)
The power of the judiciary to influence health made recent headlines when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and Alabama’s top court ruled that embryos created through...
![Straight Talk with CDC Director Mandy Cohen](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/87cd8c5e-9c63-4c84-a71d-de37e905eb06/53807676408_16ab4dcaf4_o1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C123%2C4651%2C2618&w=400)
The science-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the linchpin of the nation’s public health system. With its state-of-the art laboratories, world-class da...
![New Prescription for Trust](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/290bac42-f841-4530-b4d7-d1e32a03dc4d/53807869390_cfe6318fa0_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C194%2C4651%2C2616&w=400)
Although most Americans (83%) still trust their doctors to tell them the truth about health issues, fewer than half have faith in healthcare CEOs, government leaders, or journ...
![Taking Aim at Gun Violence Through Public Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/f8e07b50-be14-4140-ab36-cb9d3d5d3af6/53806306691_0139565581_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C109%2C5850%2C3292&w=400)
Lessening the anguish of firearms injury demands that we reach across ideological divides. No one—not gun owners or health systems, not parents or politicians of any party—con...
![In Conversation with CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e06f2d05-3842-45df-a7de-c5aee46ead67/53807864915_33f9fd0af3_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C274%2C4651%2C2618&w=400)
Barely a dozen years ago, Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues published a paper in Science about CRISPR, the pioneering gene-editing technique that thrilled the scientific comm...