Reconfiguration of Healthcare for Bottom Line Results

Gruber D, McMenamin JP, Reich J. Reconfiguration of Healthcare for Bottom Line Results. Telehealth and Medicine Today. 2018;2(6).

Joseph P, Mcmenamin.

I. Everybody you mentioned, David, has a voice in it, and everybody has an interest. The patients themselves, obviously, the caregivers, the providers, the insurers; everybody is involved. At the risk of seeming a little too pessimistic, I don’t think the current system is sustainable. And I think that this situation will not remain as it is indefinitely for the simple reason that we can’t afford it. And I suspect that eventually we will either abandon what we have and go back to something far different from what we have today-and the kind of care that existed when I was a kid before Medicare was even invented, which I think is pretty unlikely-or eventually we will move in the direction of some single payer system just because we can’t continue to do what we’re doing.

Mcmenamin J, M, J. FCLM is General Counsel.

Joel Reich is Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer at Eastern Connecticut Health Network.