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Health Care: The Simple Solution by CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN
When it comes to reform, we should drop the public-private debate. The way to cut costs is to put care and insurance in the same bed

BusinessWeek, March 4, 2010

I have spent much of my professional life studying innovation. Twelve years ago some friends suggested that the struggles of our health-care system were essentially problems of managing innovation. Instead of studying health care to reach conclusions about health care, as others have done, they suggested examining the industry through the lens of innovation.

Along with two physicians, I recently wrote The Innovator's Prescription. My co-authors' work, and my forays into health care—I've had diabetes for 30 years, suffered a massive heart attack, and am now in chemotherapy for lymphoma—informed our perspective. Our key conclusion: The cause of runaway health costs is malpractice, but not the medical kind. Rather, we're guilty of business model malpractice on a grand scale. Most caregivers in our system bring great talent and commitment to their patients. But the systems in which they work compromise quality and push up costs.
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