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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.
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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.
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