Employee Benefit News December 12, 2024
Paula Muto, M.D.

Fixing healthcare should be a top priority for the next administration because it directly impacts key issues like the economy and border security. Manufacturing jobs go overseas because of the high cost of health benefits and undocumented workers are hired because no one owes them health benefits. If the goal is to modernize government agencies to make them more efficient, healthcare is the perfect place to start because even small changes can reap lasting rewards. Here is a list of what can be done:

1. Suspend all incentives
Everyone who works in healthcare, physicians, nurses, hospital administrators and insurance company employees, all agree there is too much bureaucracy. What fuels this is a never-ending quest to acquire data, which is usually...

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