Excerpted from From Brian Klepper’s blog, “Don’t Invite Anyone from Health Care.”
“Unlike most health care executives, non-health care business leaders are positively beside themselves over unrelenting, runaway health care costs. They are perplexed why it is so difficult to turn health care around. Given an opportunity and some guidance about an industry that they know little about, they will act decisively to bring things under control.… The health care crisis will last only as long as it takes non-health care business to unite and mobilize.
Once they have accomplished that, they will use their influence over markets and policy to impose business disciplines – standards, performance transparency, and payments tied to performance – on the health care sector that many other industries adopted long ago.
The leaders of non-health care business will make this happen, not because they particularly care about health care or social justice, but because they recognize that an unhealthy work force is unproductive, and because they understand that if the nation’s largest economic sector becomes unstable, it could disrupt business within every economic sector.
In other words, America's business leaders will drive reform because it is in their own best interests.”
Brian Klepper is a health care analyst based in Atlantic Beach, Florida. You can reach him at bklepper@gmail.com.
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