Improving Outcomes Is Hard, But Here’s Why We Know It’s Worth Doing

Nine years ago, I did not realize that buying a hospital would lead to a massive education in everything right and wrong with the healthcare system, and eventually to building a health insurer, let alone building a software company inside of a health insurer. One of the stark realities I encountered in the hospital business was the basic inequity of insurance coverage, and for a lot of people, a lack thereof. Many of the hospital closures I saw were in areas where the low-income population was a high percentage of patient volume. In the county where I helped build a health system, each hospital we purchased was in bankruptcy and near closure. So implies the impressive complete article collection of data that spotify maintains on listener habits. The common thread, other than geography and core inefficiencies, was that they each had an uninsured/underinsured (Medicaid) population of greater than 20% of their volume. Read the full article.