How to Get What We Pay For: A Handbook for Healthcare Revolutionaries: Doctors, Nurses, Healthcare Leaders, Inventors, Investors, Employers, Insurers, Governments, Consumers, You

This truly is a handbook each reader in the title: For healthcare leaders making expensive choices in direction for your organizations, for employers, looking for much better, much cheaper healthcare for your people, for consumers, shopping for healthcare for your families, for investors planning your next big play.

It s a handbook for how to get the best care for much less, without rationing, while revolutionizing the system at the same time. Flower paints the big picture for everyone, so that each of can see for the first time how the whole system is shifting, how each one of us, from single mothers to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, has a way forward in determining our own and our descendants healthcare choices now and for many years to come.

Drawing on his 35 years of experience as healthcare futurist and thought leader, Joe Flower explains how healthcare came to be so expensive, and what makes this a unique moment in history, with unique opportunities for all of us to get much better value, while creating that value throughout the system. The revolution in healthcare is called Volume to Value and most readers outside the healthcare industry do not yet understand how it s going to affect the care that will be available down the street, or whether their own local hospital will continue to exist. Most people do not yet understand how much influence every patient has right now in shaping The Next Healthcare taking form right now.

Chances are that if you re American, you believe that the big healthcare issue was Obamacare. You probably think that the fight is mostly over except for what s in the courts. Here's the surprise: What is affecting the healthcare market in the U.S and beyond is much bigger than Obamacare. Flower paints the big picture: the global and national trends, the economic, technological, and demographic forces. He explains what is really been driving healthcare, how that's finally changing, and what your opportunities are now to completely change your relationship to the healthcare industry in the choices you make as a healthcare leader, as an employer buying healthcare for your people, as a consumer shopping for care for your family, as an investor deciding where to place your bets.

Pushing Healthcare to the Tipping Point presents a framework for understanding and action, based on Flower s Seven Levers of Change. In the book you ll find To-Dos, and the checklists specific to each of the readers in the title. He tells you exactly what steps you can take to dramatically reduce your own healthcare costs and get much better quality without rationing, while revolutionizing the system at the same time. So maybe you are a healthcare revolutionary?