Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Aug 2018
Eli Lilly CEO: why consumers are key to bringing down health care costs
27 August 2018 - For all of us who want better value in health care, seeing Apple, Amazon, and other tech companies deploy record profits to transform delivery of medicines and medical services should be good news.
But there’s one big barrier standing in the way: the outdated U.S. health care system. Without significant reforms, these companies’ efforts—and many investors’ hopes—could fail.
America’s health care system was designed 50 years ago for the issues of that day—to treat mostly acute episodes of illness inside brick-and-mortar facilities with lots of people and little technology.
