Hill July 10, 2017
Clayton Christensen and Andrew Waldeck

The U.S. healthcare sector is by far the world’s most expensive per capita — about two times higher than the U.K., Canada, and Australia, with chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease accounting for more than 75 percent of spending. At the same time, the quality of care Americans receive is increasingly unequal and depends more and more on their incomes and where they live.

Proposed healthcare policy changes are aimed at merely shifting rising costs around the system — missing the true nature of this multi-trillion dollar problem. A better path forward would be to make healthcare more affordable by repairing the fundamental disconnect between what patients need in order to maximize their health and what they actually...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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