Restoring the Physician/Patient Relationship: An Interview with Jackson Healthcare&a... (. The real motive behind healthcare ref...)

Restoring the Physician/Patient Relationship: An Interview with Jackson Healthcare's CEO

Date:10/14/2009

The real motive behind healthcare reform is to reduce government spending on healthcare. It has nothing to do with incentivizing an integrated system that rewards quality and efficiency, while penalizing waste. The proposed solutions for reforming America's inefficient healthcare system treat symptoms, not the root problem.

What is the root problem with the U.S. healthcare system?

Physicians don't have an incentive to cut costs and reduce patient utilization. Patients don't have an incentive to manage their health and utilization. Actually, both are rewarded for overutilization, which drives up costs. This persistent cost inflation has brought us to a point where many patients and their employers simply can't afford the cost of their care and they can't afford to insure themselves against these costs.

The current belief is the government can spend healthcare dollars more wisely than physicians and patients in the marketplace. Instead, efforts should be made to help patients find and access the highest quality, lowest cost medical care in the country.

What are the components of your proposal?

First, we need to restore the relationship between physicians and their patients by removing the barriers that exist between them. Second, we should use existing technologies to expedite patient care, while reducing administrative redundancies and waste. Third, let's put physicians back in control of medicine so they can practice high quality, low cost medicine and self-police negligent practices. Fourth, we need a national fee schedule that eliminates provider networks and recognizes geographic cost of living differences. Fifth, we should use an independently managed trust fund that incentivizes healthy patient habits. And finally, we should reward physicians and private industry for controlling costs and driving new diagnostic and care innovations.

What current technologies do you believe would meet the
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