Deloitte October 31, 2019
Hippocrates (often recognized as the father of modern medicine) understood that disease wasn’t caused by the gods or influenced by superstition. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he saw the correlation between individuals, their communities, and their environments. He also understood that prevention was preferable to cure.1 More than 2,400 years later, it appears we are getting back to these basic tenets of health.
It’s been well documented that the US spends more on health than any other industrialized country and has the poorest outcomes. Annual per-capita health spending in the US tops $10,000—about double what many other countries spend. But we seem to be spending too much on the clinical side while ignoring the factors that cause health issues in...
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