Last week, Trump proposed cutting out insurers and giving Americans cash to buy their own healthcare, claiming it would lower costs. Ali Diab, an economist and CEO of Collective Health, said the plan overlooks the real problem: concentrated payer power, opaque pricing and the financial risk people face without insurance.
President Obama announced in his State of the Union speech Tuesday that he would launch a “Precision Medicine Initiative,” aimed to cure things like cancer and diabetes. Of course, that sounds like a stellar goal, but some critics, or at least observers, are having a hard time wrapping their minds around how this is feasible, […]
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.