What if, in healthcare, profit follows complexity and dependency instead of performance?
Hospitals, physicians, and insurers are investing billions of dollars to improve population health and make care more affordable. Every major health system now has a “value strategy.” Every payer is building “population health” infrastructure. Every boardroom is fluent in “value, prevention, and affordability.”
And yet, despite the rhetoric, the data remain stubborn: costs continue to rise faster than GDP, the gap between life expectancy and spending widens, and the health of our communities, particularly those most in need, shows little sustained improvement.
