Monday, November 12, 2007
ABQ Journal: Medical Cost Analyst Says Business Has the Power but Not the Will to Force Price Trims
By Winthrop Quigley
Copyright (c) 2007 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer
The businesses that pay a big share of the nation's medical bills will reform health care, not the politicians and not the medical providers, a national policy analyst told members of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce.
The major purchasers of health care, which are businesses, have the power, the tools and the motivation to change the system, said Brian R. Klepper, a Florida-based consultant and