Scrap the System and Start Anew: How to Fix American Healthcare

Abstract

The healthcare system in America is unsustainable. Healthcare already represents almost one-fifth of our nation’s GDP and this figure is only projected to grow more as the baby boomer generation fully retires. The cost of healthcare and the weight that it puts on the rest of our society and federal budget is well understood as one of the biggest problems America faces today.

But identifying this as a problem is the easy part.

The difficult part is figuring out what we could do about it that would be bold enough to truly change our trajectory.