Who Will Pay for the Coronavirus Pandemic?

Who will pay for the Coronavirus pandemic? China? Dream on, Bullwinkle. More like taxpayers. But as Hunter explains, there’s some good news within that larger picture. The money is there to pay for it, though it requires thinking different about our healthcare system. There’s a lot of cost savings on the table. 

Buyer’s Guide Summary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfLe-OvmYZ4

Superusers:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/06/fixing-the-5-percent/532077/

Dr. Aimee Ostick:

https://www.healthandhealingdpc.com

Dr. James Tinsley

https://www.lighthousedpc.com

Saving 19% on Medicaid and patients loving the care 

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/cost-data-entrepreneurs-look-scale-unlimited-primary-care

@ the 44:45 mark:

https://video.hint.com/dr-erika-bliss-the-qliance-experience

Medicaid spending:

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/total-medicaid-spending/?currentTimeframe=0&selectedRows=%7B%22wrapups%22:%7B%22united-states%22:%7B%7D%7D%7D&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

Medicare spending:

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/the-facts-on-medicare-spending-and-financing/

19 Million Colonoscopies:

https://idataresearch.com/an-astounding-19-million-colonoscopies-are-performed-annually-in-the-united-states/

Dr. Lee Gross of Epiphany Health @ 13:52 mark:

https://video.hint.com/dr-lee-gross-breaking-the-cost-curve

https://www.epiphanyhealth.org/

Top Ten Most Common Surgeries:

https://www.healthgrades.com/right-care/tests-and-procedures/the-10-most-common-surgeries-in-the-u-s

Prescription drug spending:

https://img.datawrapper.de/groT2/full.png

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/recent-forecasted-trends-prescription-drug-spending/#item-most-people-taking-rx-drugs-say-they-can-afford-their-treatment-but-about-1-in-4-have-a-difficult-time-affording-their-medicine_2019

Lab testing:

https://costsofcare.org/the-cost-of-laboratory-testing/

Overall spending:

By extension, the 18 costliest medical conditions in the US. Note how many are preventable but hamstrung by the system. Most are easily dealt with in the primary care space:

https://www.medicinenet.com/medical_condition_costs/article.htm

https://www.milliman.com/en/insight/-/media/Milliman/importedfiles/ektron/2019-milliman-medical-index.ashx