Mares: No US healthcare payer covers exercise for heart disease prevention
Justin Mares · How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention · Feb 4, 2026 · at 11:46
Justin Mares, founder and CEO of Truemed, discusses the failure of US healthcare payers to fund lifestyle interventions on The a16z Podcast.
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“And yet, if you look at our healthcare system, nothing in the healthcare system thinks about someone who is at risk of heart disease exercising as a healthcare intervention. No payer pays for it. No one incentivizes you to do that.”
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