Q: Your life’s work is in markets and building value. How did you stay out of politics?
A: I have muzzled myself ever since 2009. I wrote that Wall Street Journal piece that created this huge controversy about Obamacare with my board. I just thought we needed to innovate in health care, not one-size-fits-all, which is what Obamacare is really about. My board basically shut me down. And I was intimidated enough to shut up.
Well, I was telling my leadership team, pretty soon you’re going to be hearing about Crazy John, who’s no longer muzzled.
Q: Is your biggest concern that everything is more politicized?
A: My concern is that I feel like socialists are taking over. They’re marching through the institutions. They’re taking everything over and taking over education. It looks like they’ve taken over a lot of the corporations. It looks like they’ve taken over the military. And it’s just continuing. I’m so deeply concerned about it. I believe in liberty and capitalism. Those are my twin values.
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