The Best Expression of What’s Wrong With the U.S. Healthcare System

Watch the best of what’s wrong with our healthcare system.

4sight Health’s David W. Johnson joins John R. Graham, visiting fellow at Paragon Health Institute and Al Hubbard, co-founder of E&A companies, and former director of the White House National Economic Council, to take on the hospital cost crisis in America in an important conversation that could impact employers, state legislators and the healthcare industry at large.

The conversation is based on a new Paragon research paper, “The Hospital Cost Crisis: How Government Policies Drive Consolidation, Undermine Competition, and Fuel Soaring Prices,” by John R. Graham.

The panelists examine the growing expense of hospital services in America, including:

• Why hospital prices have soared far above inflation.
• How government policies have fueled consolidation and weakened competition.
• What lessons we can learn from taking on high hospital prices.
• Reforms that can restore accountability and lower costs for patients, employers, and taxpayers.

Stay tuned for the Q&A at the end for important questions and earnest engagement.

What we know: U.S. hospitals operate in a government-shaped system that rewards consolidation, opacity and inefficiency rather than competition, value and accountability.

What’s happening: Policies such as certificate-of-need laws, payment differentials between care settings, restrictions on physician-owned hospitals and broad subsidies have driven hospital prices far above inflation and make health care increasingly unaffordable for patients, employers and taxpayers.

What can help: Site-neutral payment, stronger price transparency and restructuring hospital support programs that reward quality, efficiency and genuine need.

Watch “A Conversation About The Hospital Cost Crisis and What To Do About It,” an important hour by the Paragon Health Institute.