How employers can lead the way for health reform
American businesses hold a solution to one of the most fundamental flaws of American health care: misalignment of incentives. We live in a nation where profit-seeking behavior can be more alluring than high-quality patient care. To date, major health care reform efforts have paid little attention to the business community’s potential to address this issue.
Status quo
Currently, the status quo is such that health insurance companies and health care providers act …