This is Why We Need More Jeffrey Brenners
A 58-year-old Maryland woman breaks her ankle, develops a blood clot and, unable to find a doctor to monitor her blood-thinning drug, winds up in an emergency room 30 times in six months. A 55-year-old Mississippi man with severe hypertension and kidney disease is repeatedly hospitalized for worsening heart and kidney failure; doctors don’t know that his utilities have been disconnected, leaving him without air conditioning or a refrigerator in the sweltering summer heat. A 42-year-old morbidly obese woman with severe cardiovascular problems and bipolar disorder spends more than 300 days in a Michigan hospital and nursing home because she can’t afford a special bed or arrange services that would enable her to live at home. (KHN)
“…the costly cohort battling multiple chronic illnesses who consumed 21 percent of the nearly $1.3 trillion Americans spent on health care in 2010, at a cost of nearly $88,000 per person.”
Does anyone think there will be enough young and healthy people to support this group?
Not I. Read this article to see Dr. Goodman’s suggestion.
http://healthblog.ncpathinktank.org/tell-us-again-why-we-need-young-people/
The 88k per person is those who are paying for the medical expenses before Obamacare. Not those young people who are funding it now.
“Five percent of patients accounted for 50 percent of all health-care expenditures. By contrast, the bottom 50 percent of patients accounted for just 2.8 percent of spending that year.”
To me, this is evening more shocking..
Yeah, that is absolutely incredible
Wow, we really do need more Brenners..
Just one more Brenner would have a huge impact.
“On its first thirty-six super-utilizers, they averaged sixty-two hospital and E.R. visits per month before joining the program and thirty-seven visits after — a forty-per-cent reduction. Their hospital bills averaged $1.2 million per month before and just over half a million after — a fifty-six-per-cent reduction.”
“If you can save taxpayers money, you can make money — the more money you save, the more you earn.”
This should be a universal truth in a democracy.
It certainly is a great incentive. Increasing the quality of life and purchasing power are the ultimate goals right?
Young entrepreneurs are the future leaders of this country. There is a certain skill/drive/”X-factor” that has pushed them to create their own opportunities, in the mix of a generation who is completely content with sitting on a couch playing video games all day.
It’s about time we take a look at this selective group and reward them for these efforts that are rapidly diminishing.
America was built by entrepreneurs–
What will America be with no entrepreneurs?
The ACA doesn’t help my small business(Lawn Care/Landscaping). I just recently won a bid for a local municipality, but my marginal profits are negative because I would have to higher 4 more workers, sending me over 50 employees.
1099’s here we come.