Reinventing Health Care: The Role of the States
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 26th, 2009 5:38 am by HL
Reinventing Health Care: The Role of the States
When the nation’s governors gathered in Washington this weekend, many were preoccupied with the largest, fastest growing category of their budgets: health care. Unfortunately, none of the serious reform plans on the table in Washington attack the three core problems that drive health care inflation: a fee-for-service payment system that encourages waste; a medical system so fragmented that real management of costs is almost impossible and administrative overhead is 25-30 percent; and lifestyles that are creating an epidemic of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
