4 Consumer-Focused Revolutions That Will Change Health Care

submitted by Janine Rees

fastcoexist.com - by Andrew J. Rosenthal

In our flailing attempts to fix our health care system, there are some rays of hope. Insurance providers are being forced to start thinking of patients as people, not as revenue streams.

Health care is broken. Insurance is hard to access, and expensive. What you pay often has little to do with the care quality you receive. Physicians are pressed for time, when you can see them. And the relationships between patient and doctor, and employer, and health insurer often seem to have broken down completely.

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