4sight Health November 6, 2024
It’s time for another installment of my healthcare blame game series. The series is based on my theory that sectors of the healthcare industry take turns blaming each other for high costs, limited access and poor quality while tacitly agreeing amongst themselves not to really do anything about it.
This segment is brought to you by Big Pharma, which is blaming primarily health insurers, and to a lesser extent providers, for consumer access problems.
The blame is embodied in a report called Access Denied: Patients Speak Out on Insurance Barriers and the Need for Policy Change. The 28-page report is based on a survey of about 2,600 U.S. adults age 18 or older conducted by Ipsos (the market research firm)...