Building Better Health podcast
Health care is complicated — and it’s changing fast. Building Better Health is a new podcast from UnitedHealth Group exploring what’s working in health care today and what helps people live longer, healthier lives.
Each episode features conversations with researchers, clinicians, and innovators on topics like preventive care, chronic conditions, mental health, affordability, Medicare and employer coverage, value‑based care, and the role of technology and data in improving outcomes.
Join us as we explore how we can make health care work better for everyone.
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Terence Samuel is a veteran journalist and news executive who served as chair of the board of directors of the National Press Foundation from 2024 to 2026. He previously held senior leadership roles as editor in chief of USA Today, vice president and executive editor of NPR and Washington editor of The Washington Post.
He is the author of The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the United States Senate (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). His work was also anthologized in Best American Political Writing of 2009 (PublicAffairs).
Samuel has held research fellowships at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics at American University. In fall 2021, he served as the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
He is a graduate of the City College of New York and lives in Washington, DC.
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Episodes
01 | How Do We Build a Better System?
This episode focuses on the structural design of the American health care system —- why it delivers the results it does, and what it would take to build a better one.