Healthcare reform is a concern that is being seriously pondered by many health professionals. In this video, HealthMaker Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH talks about the importance of transparency and how it can be accomplished.
I think transparency is a wonderful tool that would be part of healthcare reform but it isn't merely transparency making the costs available on the New York Times website or part of ABC news or any other coverage is part of the process. What I think the huge disruption comes from consumers themselves via either copays or options that are given by their employer or their insurance coverage, that actually consumers feel that part of that pain.
So part of this is transparency but the one is people asking questions they ask in all the rest of their life about value, and so I think that's a really healthy positive development.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide. She previously served as president of product development at Genentech.
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