Forbes January 21, 2026
Most industries enjoy a luxury that U.S. healthcare does not. In professional services, retail, logistics and software, leaders can respond quickly when conditions change. Companies can shrink or expand the workforce, adopt innovative technologies or reconfigure operations within months.
Healthcare lacks that flexibility. Training new physicians takes a decade, making it difficult to adjust workforce supply to meet changing demand. And unlike other industries, hospitals cannot rapidly cut services or reduce capacity. In fact, most clinical service changes require regulatory approval, turning cost reduction into a multiyear process.
With timelines like these, course correction in healthcare is inherently slow. Problems that might have been manageable persist. And by the time leaders act, threats frequently become too large to reverse.
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