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Today, Aetion, the health care technology company that delivers real-world evidence (RWE) for life sciences companies, payers, and regulatory agencies, announced that former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb has joined its board of directors. Gottlieb will advise the company as it expands the reach and utility of the Aetion Evidence Platform™, a scientifically validated tool to assess the safety, effectiveness, and value of treatments.

Startup insurer Bright Health, which is expanding next year into seven new states, has hired veteran Twin Cities executive Mike Mikan as vice chairman and president of the Minneapolis-based company.

July 2019 was determined to be the hottest month in recorded history according to scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The temperature was 1.71 degrees above average July temperatures over the entire twentieth century. In fact, nine of the ten hottest Julys occurred since 2005.

Insurers are expanding their Affordable Care Act plan offerings for next year, with the once-troubled business now generating profits, even as the overall individual-insurance market has shrunk.

It is impossible to not appreciate the fierce sense of independence when traveling in the Basque Country. While I was fortunate to leave right before the brutal heat of the past month, it is clear that the somewhat tortured regional history of the last half century still influences much of the current narrative, and arguably this political history has influenced the healthcare framework now managing the 2.2 million residents of this beautiful but complicated region.