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The Shupe Center for Healthcare Cost Reform

We are a think-tank whose purpose is to identify and provide innovative, practical, alternative solutions to the current US healthcare cost crisis and establish long-term vehicles to support future innovation and quality in healthcare.  Contributors come from every vocation touching the financing and delivery of healthcare.

Click Here for a List of Contributors

 

Top 10 Reasons Why the Healthcare Cost Crisis Cannot Be Fixed

#10 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as our primary focus is on how to pay for them.

#9 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as the government pays to fix the broken arm of an 85-year old grandmother.

#8 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as receiving health care for everything we do to our bodies is a right.

#7 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as we keep inventing drugs and procedures that we cannot afford personally, without someone else paying for them.

#6 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as the government makes the rules and sets the rates.

#5 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as transparency only applies to the little guy.

#4 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as competition is defined as, one to three insurance companies in each state.

#3 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as the term “too big to fail” includes any insurance company or government program.

#2 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as individual responsibility and wellness is not the core of the solution.

#1 Health Care costs will never come down, as long as somebody has to receive credit for fixing it.

Healthcare Reform Done Differently

The Shupe Center for Healthcare Reform, unlike many other sites, SCHCR allows you to do more than scream at your TV or radio - or just read what others think. This is an organic site that allows you to see a fluid model of a Healthcare Cost Reform and make suggested changes.  You can become part of the solution! Read over the three levels related to the problem and then the suggested solution. We welcome your thoughts and suggested changes/additions/deletions to both the problem section and the solution. 
 

Healthcare and Financial Industry Involvement in Healthcare Reform

It is past time that those who are actually involved in this industry step up to the plate and offer a collective solution. It is our fault that this was not addressed several years ago. In our complacency, government has done what they do best - offer a government option.
 
So, let's get to work. The healthcare reform is a click away.