Children can't vote. They don't earn an income. So who decides how they get healthcare?

Host Sas Mukherjee talks with Dr. Vipul Mankad, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist whose career spans the hospital bedside, a children's hospital he co-founded in Kentucky, an insurance company he helped launch, and the U.S. Senate committee that writes health policy, where he worked unpaid just to understand how the laws get made.

Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Part 2 covers Medicaid funding, genomics-enabled medicine, and remote home monitoring.

Dr. Mankad is a member of the Catalyst Solutions board and former pediatrics department chair.