HealthcareThe Need for Value-Based Care Today
Over and over again, studies reveal that the United States healthcare system suffers from suboptimal outcomes, even though Americans spend more on healthcare than similar industrialized nations. As a recent article in Time Magazine notes, “average life expectancy is lower in the U.S. than in other wealthy nations, and about 60% of U.S. adults have a chronic disease.” Part of the problem is that the majority of the healthcare system in the US still uses...