In my career, there have been many things I am fortunate enough to be proud of. Yet one of the things I feel most strongly about is the culture we created during the ten years I was at Aetna, and its enduring impact. Ron Williams Read Quote
In my experience, it is the leader – the CEO – who plays the crucial role in creating and ‘owning’ an organization’s culture, setting the tone, and executing on that consistently. Ron Williams Read Quote
We know a culture doesn’t just happen; it is the result of what you do every day. Ron Williams Read Quote
I believe in the power of a positive, high-performance culture, which begins with strong ethical values at the core. Ron Williams Read Quote
As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media’s caricature: rapacious privateers who destroy companies. Ron Williams Read Quote
As CEO of Aetna, I was a buyer of portfolio companies rather than a participant in the value creation process. From the end of the assembly line, what happened in manufacturing wasn’t visible to me. Ron Williams Read Quote
When I retired from Aetna, I became part of the private equity world. It turned out to be a natural fit. Ron Williams Read Quote
King v. Burwell pointed at but did not directly challenge the ACA’s most essential weakness: Government-mandated participation in health insurance exchanges as a precondition to receiving a subsidy is not the best or most effective means of achieving its goal of expanded access to health coverage. Ron Williams Read Quote
There are several problems with the ACA’s reliance on means-based inclusion criteria and mandatory participation in exchanges – the complexity of the exchange mechanism, and the potential for income-based subsidies to become a disincentive to earn if insurance rates escalate for those beyond the income threshold. Ron Williams Read Quote
I remain deeply interested in the transformation of the American healthcare system to improve quality and contain costs. Ron Williams Read Quote
