> [...] rethink how many prescriptions they shovel into the population. They need to rethink how they pigeonhole patients. They need to get people exercising. Those changes aren't going to come from anyone still talking about "how we deliver health care".
If you went to investors and used that as a pitch you'd be laughed out quick. Need to get people exercising? That's exactly the sort of unrealistic target that you don't want to have if you're going to run a company. Instead focusing on what could be realistically improved and doing that - which delivery inefficiencies are certainly a part of - that sounds like the most reasonable way to deal with something as big of a cluster f* the healthcare system in the US is.
>> to get people exercising? That's exactly the sort of unrealistic target that you don't want to have if you're going to run a company.
Funny. Morning exercises were are part of Japanese corporate culture for a generation. In many European countries employers are expected to support employee fitness goals. My job (military) mandates that we all be given five one-hour periods each week to exercise. Not weekends, during the work day. It is totally normal for someone to go from meeting to the gym and back again during the day. Our civilian employees participate in this too, although they aren't tested.
I think it totally reasonable for any large company to make exercise part of their corporate culture, particularly in the US where employers are so involved in health care. Anyone laughing such ideas out of the room needs to broaden their horizons.
If you went to investors and used that as a pitch you'd be laughed out quick. Need to get people exercising? That's exactly the sort of unrealistic target that you don't want to have if you're going to run a company. Instead focusing on what could be realistically improved and doing that - which delivery inefficiencies are certainly a part of - that sounds like the most reasonable way to deal with something as big of a cluster f* the healthcare system in the US is.