HealthLeaders Media December 6, 2019
The current complexity is an outgrowth of countless decisions over the past 30 years, many of which sounded logical at the time but which grew out of financial considerations.
This story, which ran as an opinion piece in The Boston Globe, was published December 6, 2019, by Kaiser Health News.
In this highly partisan political moment, there’s one issue that nearly every American can agree on: Our health care system is a mess and in need of dramatic overhaul.
That’s not just because it is absurdly expensive compared with the systems of other developed countries. It’s also because it is so dauntingly complex.
That complexity, in large part, derives from the fact that the health care system...