Starving the Hungry Tapeworm: How Businessmen May Reform Health Care Cost
| Autor: | Vineet Chopra, Laurence F. McMahon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economic growth
Cost Control media_common.quotation_subject Vitality 01 natural sciences Gross domestic product Investment banking 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health care Internal Medicine Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine 0101 mathematics Skepticism media_common Population statistics Blindness business.industry 010102 general mathematics Commerce General Medicine Health Care Costs medicine.disease United States Health Care Reform Health care cost business |
| Zdroj: | Annals of internal medicine. 169(2) |
| ISSN: | 1539-3704 |
| Popis: | In 2016, U.S. health care spending reached $3.3 trillion, a figure representing 17.9% of the nation's gross domestic product. Sadly, the skyrocketing cost of health care is not headline news. Rather, as aptly summarized by Warren Buffett, “The ballooning costs of health care act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy” (1). Like a tapeworm, our health care cost problem degrades the overall vitality of our economy. Therefore, news that the CEOs of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase are coming together to combat health care cost has been met with anticipation and skepticism (1): anticipation—because these business giants may help solve what ails our health system—but also skepticism—because what do highly successful entrepreneurs, investment bankers, and money managers know about health care? Could blindness to the usual approaches to reducing health care cost be a strength? |
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