

Elizabeth Holmes, youngest self-made female billionaire and the founder and chief executive of diagnostic test upstart Theranos, will be one of dozens of top industry executives that will help me reimagine the healthcare system at our fourth annual Forbes Healthcare Summit, December 2 and 3.


Premium assistance is the use of public funding for the purchase of commercial health insurance. Historically, premium assistance has mostly enabled a small number of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) recipients to enroll in health insurance through their employers by having the government pay all of the costs of coverage, except for some cases where the family contributes a small premium.