ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra, Discusses the Need for a Congressionally-Created National Health Care Reform Commission (June 23rd)
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Listen Now The current public health emergency brings into stark relief US health care’s ineffectiveness. As previously noted, with 4.25% of the world’s population, the US currently accounts for 26% of worldwide COVID-19 infections and deaths. Concerning our response to date, Harvard's Ashish Jha recently stated, "we may end up being the worst of any country in the world in terms of our response." Despite outspending all other OECD countries 2 to 1, or currently $4 trillion annually (and expected to grow to $6 trillion by 2027) , the effect the pandemic is having should not be unexpected. In the first major attempt to rank health care performance globally, the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the US health care 37th in the world. More recently, a 2017 Commonwealth Fund study ranked US health care’s performance last among 11 rich countries. With a current projected COVID-19 death toll of over 200,000 by October 1st, per the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the question begged is what will federal policy makers learn from the pandemic, or more specifically what will they do to substantially reform how health care is currently defined, delivered and funded.
ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra, Discusses the Need for a Congressionally-Created National Health Care Reform Commission (June 23rd)
ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra, Discusses the…
ProMedica's CEO, Randy Oostra, Discusses the Need for a Congressionally-Created National Health Care Reform Commission (June 23rd)
Listen Now The current public health emergency brings into stark relief US health care’s ineffectiveness. As previously noted, with 4.25% of the world’s population, the US currently accounts for 26% of worldwide COVID-19 infections and deaths. Concerning our response to date, Harvard's Ashish Jha recently stated, "we may end up being the worst of any country in the world in terms of our response." Despite outspending all other OECD countries 2 to 1, or currently $4 trillion annually (and expected to grow to $6 trillion by 2027) , the effect the pandemic is having should not be unexpected. In the first major attempt to rank health care performance globally, the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the US health care 37th in the world. More recently, a 2017 Commonwealth Fund study ranked US health care’s performance last among 11 rich countries. With a current projected COVID-19 death toll of over 200,000 by October 1st, per the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the question begged is what will federal policy makers learn from the pandemic, or more specifically what will they do to substantially reform how health care is currently defined, delivered and funded.