Robert Reiss Interviews George Halvorson, Chairman & CEO of Kaiser Permanente, on the CEO TV Show About the Problems and Solutions to America’s Health Care Crisis
Robert Reiss, founder and host of “The CEO Show,” a nationally syndicated radio program and on-line TV Show, interviews George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest private not-for-profit health care company. Halvorson discusses how the traditional American health care business model is seriously flawed and suggests that the Nation needs to focus on total health solutions for the 10 percent of the patients who are responsible for 80% of the costs.
Ridgefield, CT, June 09, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Robert Reiss, founder and host of “The CEO Show,” a nationally syndicated radio program and on-line TV Show, interviews George Halvorson this week. Halvorson is Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest private not-for-profit health care company. Kaiser Permanente has revenues of over $50 billion, 180,000 employees; over 8.8 million members covered by its plans; and runs 35 hospitals, 454 medical offices with over 15,000 physicians. Consequently, Halvorson has a unique and objective perspective on America’s health care problems and solutions.
Halvorson discusses how the problem with health care in America is that the business model is seriously flawed because we pay for “pieces of care,” not packages of care or outcomes of care. Consequently we have an “unfocused, unconnected, and uncoordinated approach to providing health care services.” Halvorson goes on to say, “We have inferior healthcare even though we spend more money than anyone in the world.”
What needs to be done, in Halvorson’s view? “Ten percent of patients are responsible for 80% of the costs. So focusing on that 10% and coming up with total health solutions will immediately start lowering costs. It does the system no good if all we ever do is focus on providing health care after an emergency has taken place.”
Halvorson discusses much more in this CEO TV Show interview about the process of health care in America and what needs to be done to get the costs under control and resolve most of our problems.
The current CEO TV Show episode with George Halverson can be seen at www.ceoshow.tv [or on Vistage.com; ACGNYC.com – et.al].
For further information, contact Patric Hale, General Manager, The CEO Show at: Patric@ceoshow.com or (914) 441.4512.
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Halvorson discusses how the problem with health care in America is that the business model is seriously flawed because we pay for “pieces of care,” not packages of care or outcomes of care. Consequently we have an “unfocused, unconnected, and uncoordinated approach to providing health care services.” Halvorson goes on to say, “We have inferior healthcare even though we spend more money than anyone in the world.”
What needs to be done, in Halvorson’s view? “Ten percent of patients are responsible for 80% of the costs. So focusing on that 10% and coming up with total health solutions will immediately start lowering costs. It does the system no good if all we ever do is focus on providing health care after an emergency has taken place.”
Halvorson discusses much more in this CEO TV Show interview about the process of health care in America and what needs to be done to get the costs under control and resolve most of our problems.
The current CEO TV Show episode with George Halverson can be seen at www.ceoshow.tv [or on Vistage.com; ACGNYC.com – et.al].
For further information, contact Patric Hale, General Manager, The CEO Show at: Patric@ceoshow.com or (914) 441.4512.
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