Today's longread revisits the issue of health care in America. Health care is an interesting issue because there is virtually no one who argues convincingly in favor of the current system. While a handful of large insurance companies have profited under the system, very few would argue that it has done an effective job of providing care that is either efficient or of a high-quality. The system frustrates doctors and patients alike, and has caused the U.S. to slip relative to other countries on key health indicators despite massive growth in the amount being spent. In this article, Atul Gawade, who has written about these issues on several prior occasions, investigates the trend of hospital consolidation and whether a new paradigm for health care delivery might use chain restaurants (like the Cheesecake Factory) as a model.
"Big Med" by Atul Gawade
Published in the New Yorker, August 13, 2012
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
Eric
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