In my seventh episode, I spoke with Sean Nicholson, PhD, Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management and Director of the Sloan Program in Health Administration at Cornell University. We talked about the balance between rewarding pharmaceutical innovation and reducing health costs, addressing regional disparities in insurance coverage and making healthcare more consumer-oriented as care is becoming more outcome-driven and value-based, and the long-term viability of changes made in healthcare operations throughout the past year due to COVID-19.