Yahoo Finance June 18, 2021
EY America’s chief medical officer Dr. Yele Aluko joined Yahoo Finance to discuss how to achieve health equity and the need to curb rising health care costs.
“There’s an excessive amount of health care spend by employers on health care utilization,” Aluko said.
U.S. employers account for one-fifth of the more than $3.5 trillion spent on health care, and are the largest source of private insurance coverage in the country.
There is a large amount of waste within the industry, and a lot of inefficiency borne by employers managing health care of their employees, which is why all stakeholders have to come together to solve...