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Bakshi: Trump administration will likely accelerate value-based healthcare trends

Bikram Bakshi · 23 - Hands-On Investing with Blu Venture Investors Partner and ColoWatch Co-Founder Bikram Bakshi · Feb 11, 2025 · at 26:26

Bikram Bakshi, partner at Blu Ventures and co-founder of ColoWatch, discusses how the second Trump administration's healthcare leadership will approach value-based care and cost reduction.

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“If anything, given what I know about the mindset of the people who are in the leadership, From this administration standpoint, they will probably accelerate a lot of these trends and anything that shows high value reduction in the cost of care with the same level of outcomes will get noticed.”

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