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Improve Healthcare's Value or It's Not Affordable
The main tension about healthcare centers around medical need, quality, access and cost-efficiency, i.e., affordability.
These factors are critically linked in reality and theory. The Value Equation shows how they relate to each other and to you.
Basically this means you can increase value by raising quality, improving accessibility and by lowering the cost of care. The "cost of care," however, is the elephant in the room.
International Quality and Cost Comparative Experience
The US ranks at the bottom of 19 industrialized countries in preventable deaths/100,000 population
6. Access Problems
When patients require specific therapies and an insurance company makes the frail or sickly patients jump thru hoops, denying or delaying care, it's time to move away from the insurance model.
Unnecessary Care?
Here's a recurring item in the news media, examples of costly, often unnecessary and even harmful procedures....
Possible Approaches to Spending Reform
Clearly spending reform is not only part and parcel to "affordable insurance but also as the preeminent long-term threat to the economy and the competitiveness of American business."
Pay More; Get Less
The health insurance and managed care industries are strange bedfellows. Now learn what is meant by health insurance: it works better for health insurance companies than it does for patients, by and large.
