Some Striking Facts

Trevor Fetter,President and CEO of Tenet Health Care,stated that two problems stand out:1.length of stay,and 2.utilization of high cost equipment and pharmaceuticals.We should focus on incentives overcoming vested interests of doctors in certain pharmaceuticals and long stays.We are finding increasingly in our hospitals that people are taking on insurance risks that they don't understand.Twenty-five percent of their costs go unpaid.It's trending up more rapidly than the uninsured crisis,Mr.Fetter told the White House Forum on the U.S. Health Care System.All of the business leaders seemed determined to resolve the issues facing U.S. health care today.