Comments on: What’s the Business Plan for Serving the Poor? https://imaginewhatif.com/whats-the-business-plan-for-serving-the-poor/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bill Barberg https://imaginewhatif.com/whats-the-business-plan-for-serving-the-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-4222 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:55:15 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1550#comment-4222 I hope you’re OK with me promoting this blog on LinkedIn and other sites. I think you nail it on the head. This is an issue we’re working to help hospitals and communities with, and I applaud your clarity.

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]]> By: Rick Brush https://imaginewhatif.com/whats-the-business-plan-for-serving-the-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-4080 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:44:54 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1550#comment-4080 Yes! Follow the current payment systems and incentives and it’s easy to see why nearly all of the country’s $2.7 trillion annual health care spend goes to downstream treatment. Yet there’s a real business case to be made for upstream prevention. Change the business case and we can change the money-flow.

We are beginning to see more interest in something we’ve called “Health Impact Bonds,” which provide funding for prevention in exchange for a share of future health care cost savings. Bond investors pay for proven programs that reduce illness, ED visits and hospitalizations (e.g., the “Camden teams” you describe), and government and private payers who benefit from lower costs repay investors only if the programs are successful. See http://collectivehealth.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/transformational-financing-requires-a-business-case/.

This could be one way for health providers to “make a living” serving the underserved.

]]> By: BobbyG https://imaginewhatif.com/whats-the-business-plan-for-serving-the-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-4075 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:03:37 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1550#comment-4075 Your seemingly encyclopedic knowledge aside, you also come across to me as the most charitable of thinkers out there.

Notwithstanding that you are right, both in economic and moral terms, regrettably, “serving the underserved” is viewed on some quarters (no need to name names) as “serving the undeserved.”

When I finally move to the Bay Area, one thing I plan on doing is helping out at the Glide clinic, and seeing what Doc Gurley has for me to do as well..

BTW, you’re probably already seen this, but

http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/program-areas/quality-equality/strategy.html

Sensei.

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