Forbes November 6, 2024
Sachin H. Jain

As the nation gears up to inaugurate President Donald Trump to a second term, in-depth discussions of healthcare have been absent. Nevertheless, improving the system that accounts for 20 percent of our economy remains as important as ever. Here, then, are ten immediately implementable measures that could markedly improve the U.S. health care system by expanding access, reducing costs, and helping to improve the health and well-being of millions of Americans.

1) The Medicare Eligibility Age

Eleven thousand Americans age into Medicare every day, many of them never having had access to preventative medicine. As a result, too many of our healthcare dollars go toward treatment of existing conditions. One way to fix this is to lower the age of...

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