Quotes from Day 1 of the HLTH Conference Karen DeSalvo MD - Chief Health Officer Google responding to the question, Do you feel any pressure at Google to build this (Google Health) into a business. "No we don't" "Our raison d'être is better health and quality of life around the world." "This company understands that we have a lot to do to improve medical care, but health is a lot more than that." Hemant Taneja - General Catalyst "We talk about disrupting industry with tech, but people don't want their care disrupted." Talking about the impact of the pandemic on planning. "Everything we thought we were going to do over 10 years will happen in the next 4 years." Alan Lotvin, M.D. - President, CVS Caremark Responding to the question about Amazon entering the PBM space. "One underestimates Amazon to ones own peril." Paraphrasing the rest. PBMs are being pushed into transparency by their clients. We are going to make money, but we are going to show you how and why. Amazon will make progress because they take a long view, but will they break into the big leagues? Hard barrier to break. Scale matters. Scale takes time. Stay tuned for more as the week progresses.