MedCity News November 23, 2021
Stephanie Tilenius

The very first would be to reimburse virtual care the same way in-person care is reimbursed. And here are four other simple things the government can do now to get U.S. healthcare on the right track.

There’s no denying that America’s healthcare system is broken. The United States spends three times more per person on medical expenses than the average developed country does, and yet our life expectancy is lower and costs for the patients are higher. What’s more, we have no cost transparency, poor access to care, glaring inequity in treatment, and mediocre outcomes.

There’s no easy way out of this mess, even with the massive amounts of innovation being driven by the private sector, adoption is moving far...

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