More people are able to obtain insurance now, which leads to concerns about how the healthcare system will handle the influx of patients. In this video, HealthMaker Nick Augustinos discusses these worries and whether they're relevant.
The system is stressed of course because there's an imbalance if you want, the supply and demand so it will take some time until the system comes to some relative balance by bringing new people into the system, but I actually don't think it's exactly like that because even the people that aren't insured today receive care, the difference is that they receive care at a very late stage in a very expensive care at the time that they receive it so I think by addressing primary care, by addressing alternative sides of care, by providing, by creating a difference of our consciousness about how people should live and by bringing the people into the system and treating them before they get too sick.
Nick Augustinos, MBA, is senior vice president, Health Information Services and Strategy at Cardinal Health. He has 27 years of managerial, consulting and business development experience in the private and public sector.
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