On December 8th, 2000, USA Today ran a front page article highlighting the current state and the possible future of HMO’s. According to the article, “medical inflation is back, besting managed care at the very thing it was supposed to solve.”
It was supposed to solve the rising costs related to health care? Would that not be managed cost, rather than managed care? Has the management of health, not the cost of health, seen any improvement in the past ten years?
Where are the wellness programs? As Dr. Ian Grassam has so often said, industry wants a wellness program, government wants a wellness program, the public wants a wellness program. And to many, that amounts to a mammogram, a pap smear, and a vaccination.
According to the article, the costs of managed care in the coming year, are going to rise substantially. Consumers (those seeking health) are expected to pay more out of pocket as they watch those 2001 health care premiums rise.
But does that insure better health? It’s time for wellness, it’s time for chiropractic. Wellness and the expression of health, is what chiropractic is all about.
USA Today: What happens after the Band-Aids run out?
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