Health Populi November 14, 2022
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

The cost of health insurance for a worker who buys into a health plan at work in 2022 reached $22,463 for their family. The average monthly mortgage payment was $1,759 in mid-2022.

“When housing and health both rank as basic needs in Maslow’s hierarchy, what’s a health system to do?” I ask in an essay published today on Crossover Health’s website titled Value-Based Care: Driving a Social Contract of Trust and Health.

The answer: embrace value-based care.

Warren Buffett wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2008, asserting that, “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

The U.S. health care system continues to be so much about prices — as Uwe Reinhardt and colleagues advised us in the seminal...

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