Our Cover Story

摘要

All theis gloom assumes that social security and health care remain systemically unchanged.rnThe problem with health care, a growth industry if ever there was one, is the disconnect between providers and consumers-that is, our third-party payment system. If that arrangement existed in any other economic activity, youd find the same inefficiencies and rampaging cost increases that affect health care. The current system hurts productivity; it is geared toward a cost-plus way of doing things and is hostile to new ways of doing things.