Mountains, Clouds and finding common ground for Healthcare’s AI Moonshoot
Over the past few weeks, I’ve spent time on Capitol Hill meeting with policymakers and staff from both parties. I came away struck by something that feels rarer than it should: thoughtful curiosity, nuance, and a genuine willingness to engage across differences.
What stood out most was a clear bipartisan interest in two priorities that will shape the next decade: American leadership in AI and making healthcare more accessible.
Those priorities are converging at exactly the right moment.
A new Gallup poll found that, for the first time in more than five years, healthcare, specifically cost and access, ranks as the top domestic concern in the United States. That should get our attention. Healthcare is no longer a secondary policy issue or a background frustration. For many Americans, it is the issue.
At the same time, people are already using AI to interpret lab results, understand symptoms, and make everyday decisions about their health. This shift is not hypothetical, and it is not waiting for perfect consensus. It is already underway.
That raises the real question: will these systems be safe, trustworthy, and built with meaningful guardrails?
In healthcare, the stakes are different. The risks are not abstract, and the consequences are not merely technical. They are clinical. They affect how people understand their bodies, how they respond to symptoms, and whether they feel more supported or more lost.
That is why I keep coming back to the idea that fixing healthcare may be our generation’s moonshot.
It is an undertaking that demands coordination across sectors, exceptional talent, humility, and constant iteration. It requires the energy of innovation, but also the discipline of evidence, trust, and governance. It asks us to move quickly, but not carelessly.
While walking through the Hart Senate Office Building, I found myself thinking about Alexander Calder’s Mountains and Clouds. The work has often been understood as a meditation on balance: the grounded, enduring structures of society in conversation with movement, change, and new ideas. The ‘clouds’ portion of Calder’s artwork was removed in 2017 for safety reasons, and I’m hopeful a re-imagined version may appear (perhaps with softer white fabric clouds).
It felt like an apt metaphor for this moment. Real progress depends on both. We need strong institutions, but we also need the courage to rethink how systems work when they are no longer serving people well.
That balance matters deeply in healthcare.
We do not need more noise, more hype, or more surface-level engagement. We need tools that people can actually trust. We need systems that help extend care beyond the exam room without compromising quality or integrity. We need to build in a way that respects both human complexity and clinical reality.
That is part of what we are working toward at Evra Health.
Our focus is on helping people manage their health between doctor visits, making care more continuous, more accessible, and more grounded in clinical integrity. The future of healthcare will not be built by replacing clinicians or by reducing people to a stream of disconnected data points. It will be built by helping individuals make better decisions, earlier and more consistently, with tools that are responsible, personalized, and useful in the flow of daily life.
Innovation in healthcare only matters if people can trust it, and if they can access it.
That is why I remain optimistic. Not because the challenges are small, but because there is real opportunity for collaboration across perspectives. When people begin from a shared mission, especially one as fundamental as improving health, common ground is still possible.
Healthcare is one of the clearest places to find it.
— Amitha