Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Dec 2016
Why drug costs will keep rising in 2017
19 December 2016 - And nine more healthcare predictions for next year.
At the start of 2016, we made 10 healthcare predictions for the year ahead. Overall, we were 50% right, which is either a failing grade in high school or a great average in baseball.
In the win column, we predicted that the Federal Trade Commission would block a major hospital merger, and they did just that with Advocate and NorthShore health systems in Chicago. We predicted that the technology-enabled insurance startup craze would be a bust, and Oscar promptly lost a ton of money and pivoted sharply from the individual market in New York.
