What to do About Our Many Healthcare Crises | Part 1
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Show Summary: We are dumping billions upon billions into our healthcare system. But there are more healthcare crises than ever. What’s going on? We talk with health care system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier to find out what’s happening and why there are so many crises. Next week, we’ll look at the root cause of so many of these problems and what can be done.
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Original Air Dates: July 30th & 31st, 2022 | Guest: Lisa Lettenmaier
This Week – Our Many Healthcare Crises
We are diving deep into the problems plaguing our health care system. The many healthcare crises and the ever-growing expense. How is it that we are spending more than ever — by far! — on healthcare and yet it’s just one crisis after another?
Does anyone even remember that we were promised that Obamacare would fix all this? And cost less?
We bring back our healthcare system expert, Lisa Lettenmaier. Lisa is currently an insurance agent and owns Health Source NW. But her background is in accounting, overseeing budgets and forecasting for major companies. So when she looks at the healthcare crises, she is viewing it not just from an insurance standpoint but from a systemic analyst’s viewpoint.
And it’s not good.
We talk with Lisa about the many healthcare crises right now but focus on three in particular that are the most troubling. Including the mental health crisis, which, in many ways, is emblematic of the other system-wide problems.
We’ll continue this deep dive next week and focus in on the root of all these crises. Which has changed everything—and not for the good.
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Research, Links Mentioned & Additional Info
Rising prescription drug prices (OregonLive, July 20, 2022)
Oregon agency sets virtual public hearings on 2023 health insurance preliminary rate decisions (KTVZ, July 23, 2022)
Healthcare and ambulance services deal with capacity crisis (KGW, July 22, 2022)
Profits of the pandemic: Moderna gives Boston’s property market a shot (Daily Mail, July 23, 2022)
WA hospitals facing ‘unsustainable’ financial losses, in danger of cutting services (Seattle Times, July 21, 2022)
Left’s Latest Health Care Scheme Will Worsen Inflation, The Deficit, And Your Insurance (The Federalist, July 25, 2022)
Difficulty Paying Bills Tops Pandemic High in US Census Survey (Yahoo News, July 25, 2022)
Covid Relief Spending by the Federal Government (via USASpending.gov, retrieved July 28, 2022)