Health Assurance Acquisition ^{Priced, Nasdaq: HAACU}

Hemant Taneja, Glen Tullman, Stephen Klasko MD, MBA, Jennifer Schneider, MD, Quentin Clark, and Anita V. Pramoda, have established Health Assurance Acquisition Corp., a newly formed blank check company. Our mission is to partner with leading healthcare businesses leveraging technology. We aim to help them become iconic category winners that accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare into a new system of health assurance. Healthcare is a foundational pillar of society and one of the largest sectors of the United States economy. Healthcare spending is projected to reach $4.0 trillion in 2020, accounting for 18% of US GDP. As healthcare costs have continued to rise, consumers have shouldered an increasing portion of the expense out of pocket. In 2018, the average family paid more to hospitals than to the federal government in taxes, representing 15% of median household income. Even as consumers have paid more, the quality of care in the United States has fallen to the lowest in the developed world, and hospitals regularly report declining revenues and rising administration costs. This complex and inflexible system is underpinned by misaligned incentives across the stakeholder ecosystem that result in poor patient outcomes and high cost of care.