Posts Tagged ‘tradeoffs’

Transparency and Tradeoffs: The Missing T’s in The Healthcare Industry

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

AV’s recent inpatient surgery experience - she had a cervical dystectomy (relatively common neck surgery) - reminded of how fundamentally flawed our US healthcare system is. Almost every industry/market that’s “efficient” functions on some basic common principles/dynamics: Customers make purchasing decisions based on cost, quality and service and producers/companies compete on the basis of these 3 core product/service “differentiation” dimensions.

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