Analysis: Why the U.S. healthcare system will ultimately move to population-based primary care models

HFMA April 24, 2019
Chad Mulvany

• If the projections related to chronic disease bear out, it significantly increases the odds the U.S. debt to GDP growth reaches unsustainable levels.
• If these chronic disease projections become a reality, more important than the economic impact is the tremendous loss of human potential and productivity that comes with premature disability and death.

Healthcare Dive is reporting: “Chronic medical conditions will hamper U.S. economic growth in the coming years by continuing to diminish productivity, contributing to early retirement and premature mortality and draining resources and income for those affected and the larger system as a whole, according to a new report from Fitch Solutions.

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