country.”
“The healthcare crisis didn’t happen by accident, it is the direct result of decades of neoliberal policy choices that handed more power to corporate healthcare giants while families paid the price…”
country.”
“The healthcare crisis didn’t happen by accident, it is the direct result of decades of neoliberal policy choices that handed more power to corporate healthcare giants while families paid the price…”
One of the (many) reasons the medial device and supplies companies can get away with it is because a) healthcare is treated like a market when in reality the purchaser isn’t the consumer, and b) very few insurer/providers are big enough to exert market pressure against those annual increases.
Drop the decentralized fee for service mess in favor of a managed care coverage-for-all model, and both of those problems go away.
It would also help if there was an incentive for these companies to provide quality care through feedback of real patients. Like some kind of significant incentive where they would realize their automated phone system doesn’t work. That’s just the first place I thought of though
That’s what I meant by a managed care model. Fixed reimbursement per capita with minimum coverage requirements and incentive bonuses for quality, service, etc.
Ah I see. I did a little AI research on this. Apparently hospitals in the USA have a form of this approach. Obviously a flawed system but it’s called Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) and the surveys only make up a portion of the VBP program.
Large hospitals select 300 “random” patients a year to survey. That can be done through a company or the hospital can register to do it themselves.