HIT Consultant January 14, 2025
Joe Dore, President of USBenefits Insurance Services

High insurance premiums and medical costs don’t discriminate or differentiate based on your political affiliation. Therefore, healthcare should be one of your top priorities for the new administration. As a country we have been passengers passively watching the medical costs increase while the services deteriorate, only reacting when the problem lands on our doorstep.

This is a complex topic with fingers pointing everywhere passing the blame game like a hot potato. In my opinion, the costs are not necessarily attributed to wages, which is often the reference as to a leading cause, however, it’s actually services and products rendered. Various data sources point to four contributing factors:

1. hospitals (inclusive of clinics, urgent care and surgical centers)

2....

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