Businesses’ Growing Appetite for Healthcare Regulation
4sight Health December 20, 2023
By definition, employers don’t like any type of regulation of their business practices. Complying with regulations adds to their costs. The regulations themselves prevent them from doing things to cut their costs or increase their revenue that could put workers, customers and the general public at risk.
Yet, employers don’t seem to mind regulation when it comes to sectors of the healthcare industry that they blame for increasing their healthcare costs.
That’s my interesting twist takeaway from the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions’ latest Pulse of the Purchaser report released last week. The 25-page report is based on a survey of 172 private and public employers.
The surveyed employers are getting pretty testy about how their increasing healthcare expenses...