Medical Economics November 17, 2020
Danielle J. Durant, Austin Klein
True population health change will not occur until people are incentivized to take responsibility for their own health.
“Will I have to tell someone we can’t treat a loved one because we’re out of ventilators, oxygen, tubes, masks, hospitals, staff? Will we then impose an age limit, as some hospitals…are considering, or will some notion of ‘deservingness’ come into play?”
“For years, health care workers have been raising the alarm that the [system] is in crisis — calling on the government for better funding for our hospitals and better working conditions for ourselves.”
While this may sound like the voice of a stressed, frontline healthcare worker in the...
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