Healing American Healthcare Part 1

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“We need to fix the bureaucracy of healthcare. We spend 14% just on the billing and collection in the U.S. That’s more than $1000 for every family of four in the US. In Japan, for example, they spend less than 3% or $59 on billing. We need to reduce the bureaucracy and fix costs so that we can improve outcomes.”

“62% of bankruptcies in America are due to healthcare costs.”

“Medical bills are often wrong around 15% of the time.”

Episode Overview

In this episode, I talk with Ed Eichhorn. He is a successful healthcare executive and entrepreneur. He consults for medical societies and healthcare organizations through his company Medilink Consulting Group.

Ed is the co-author of Healing American Healthcare, a book that describes a universal healthcare plan for the United States that would actually save our country $1 trillion per year. Ed

recently founded the Healing American Healthcare Coalition to keep healthcare professionals informed on important research and industry news.

TOPICS

• Ed’s Career Path and interest in healthcare policies and research
• Healing American Healthcare, Ed’s Book
• Politics and Policy of American Healthcare
• History of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
• History of Universal Healthcare (global perspective)
• Cost of healthcare out of balance with our overall economy and need for transparent pricing
• Preview of “All Care”

RESOURCES

Healing American Healthcare https://www.amazon.com/Healing-American-Healthcare-Provide-Trillion/dp/1543951953

A Promised Land, book by former President Barack Obama

Sanne Magnan, Steven M. Teutsch, “Changing the Public’s Health Story: Reducing Wasteful Medical Care Spending—Introduction to the Special AJPH Section”, American Journal of Public Health 110, no. 12 (December 1, 2020): pp. 1731-1732.

https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305984

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