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Issues & observations: Riding out the storm of the health care system

✍ Scribed by David Altman; Joan Gurvis

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Weight: 71 KB
Volume: 26
Category: Article
ISSN: 1093-6092
DOI: 10.1002/lia.1151

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✦ Synopsis

ne does not have to be a medical expert to know that the health care system in the United States is unequivocally broken, and broke. It no longer serves the needs of many people, as access and affordability have been relegated to select segments of the population. Health status in the United States is being divided along socioeconomic lines, and the industry itself is fraught with political debate, disarray, and conflict.

Is there hope for improvement? That question has been asked thousands of times, but how to improve the health care system is the key question. The system will not be healed without excellent individual and collective leadership. Strong, capable individual leaders who are courageous, visionary, charismatic, and skilled will be needed. But it will take a lot more than heroic individual efforts to make significant headway with this vexing and complex challenge.

Our belief is that the development of leadership talent and of processes that support collective leadership is part of the solution. The rest of the solution-and this is something that will ultimately produce a paradigm shift in the health care system-is to fuel grassroots social action. In this article we explore some of the challenges in improving health care and the role of leadership in overcoming these challenges.

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