Health Care Reform Needs a Health Value Equation

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Regardless of which combination of solution approaches in the current health care reform debate are ultimately enacted, long term prospects for delivering on an absolute imperative to control cost while offering broad access to high quality, affordable health care depends on achieving a fundamental paradigm shift in health care resource purchasing behavior. It is astonishing that the single largest business sector of our economy, at 16% of GDP and growing, operates on different logic than the rest of the economy, which is governed by a natural human inclination to maximize return on investment (ROI). In that . . .