One American health statistic that is strikingly above average: Life expectancy for Americans who have already reached the age of 65. At that point, they can expect to live longer than the average in industrialized countries. That's because Americans above age 65 actually have universal health care coverage: Medicare. Suddenly, a diverse population with pockets of poverty is no longer such a drawback. Nicholas Kristoff, NYT
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One American health statistic that is strikingly above average:
Life expectancy for Americans who have already reached the age of 65. At that point, they can expect to live longer than the average in industrialized countries.
That's because Americans above age 65 actually have universal health care coverage: Medicare. Suddenly, a diverse population with pockets of poverty is no longer such a drawback.
Nicholas Kristoff, NYT
Well……maybe we pay more to get better around the clock service
Surely we get better quality, access and outcomes…….
Even when we know what works…..we fail to follow it….
Time for some positive news
Readmissions are a problem in the USThere is something we are not doing
But with all the vaunted hospitals, medical schools and physicians in the NYC region, surely……….
The study's lead author, Dr. David Goodman, suggests that the range in practice is linked to variations among physician and hospitals. "The care that patients receive has less to do with what they want and need and more to do with the hospitals they happen to seek care from," he said, adding, "Geography is destiny."
Dartmouth Atlas report on “Quality of End of
Life Cancer Care”, November 2010
Nearly 1 of every 4 Medicare admits would need to be eliminated to achieve national practice standards
Doing the “Right Thing” for our community… could be very beneficial to our finances
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arbitrage opportunity
Solutions abound
The will to change, on the other hand….
Medicine is remarkably conservative to the point of being properly
characterized as sclerotic, even ossified.
“Eric Topol, “The Creative Destruction of Medicine”
“There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”