A Few Words On Healthcare

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2025-01-11 13:30:03

I haven’t published anything on here in a long, long time.. Thought it would be fun to start up again. I wanted to give some stream of consciousness thoughts on how I think we can “fix” the economics of healthcare.. Hopefully I make a lot of folks think and make a lot of folks in the industry think harder.

I’m not talking about the relentless search for better ways to care for patients. Whether its surgery robotics or better bandaids, the quest to improve care is vitally important.

What I’m referring to is the complication of the industry in search of margin dollars. I won’t go down the list of who is trying to grab what and how. The starting point is “What Should it Look Like ?”

Hypothetically, It should look like 1955 (I picked this year because of Back to the Future :). Patients go to providers for care. Providers provide that care. Patients get a bill and if they can afford it, they pay that bill. That’s it.