Redefining health care
by Michael E. Porter · first published 2006
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"Health care in the United States and other nations is on a collision course with patient needs and economic reality. Rising costs, mounting quality problems, and increasing numbers of citizens without health insurance are unacceptable--and unsustainable. In Redefining Health Care, Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg set forth a new vision of the health care system in which every actor is focused on improving value, as measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. The authors prescribe a powerful and actionable agenda for change"--Page 2 of cover.
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…will have no way to use the market to stimulate improvement. Right now we don't measure long term benefits and decisions are insulated from costs. (Yeah, I drink the Kool aid: http://www.amazon.com/Redefining-Health-Care-Value-Based-Com...)
on “Let WalMart Fix US Healthcare” ↗This is what was talked about in the book "Redefining Health Care." The employer based model is totally broken. What you're describing is more open capitalism in health care where everyone is on an open playing field. I use to really believe in this at one point years…
on “Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company” ↗…This was during the big push to HSAs and how healthy people could save using them and roll that money over to an IRA later in life to aid in retirement, or kept in the HSA for medicare costs. We read Redefining Health care at work and there was a lot of talk, but always with the for-profit ends (even through we were a non-for-profit, not to be confused with a non-profit). I left the US for a while and I found it interesting…
on “'Legitimate' US healthcare pricing could reduce costs by a third” ↗