Health care challenges for leaders
β Scribed by Regina E. Herzlinger
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Weight
- 105 KB
- Volume
- 2008
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1087-8149
- DOI
- 10.1002/ltl.267
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β¦ Synopsis
he corporate leaders whose companies pay for health insurance are in a lose-lose situation: while health insurance costs grew at five times overall inflation, employees ranked health insurance as the country's worst service industry and fretted about quality of care and sufficient insurance for serious illnesses.
The worst is yet to come: new and costly technologies, and aging, empowered, and manipulative Baby Boomers who will demand new, expensive drugs-like that for Gauchers' disease, which costs approximately $170,000 a year.
Corporate leaders have been in this lose-lose situation before. What really worries them now is that their prior solution flopped.
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