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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #56 – Customized Care for an Aging Population with Sachin Jain MD
Description: There are numerous reasons to focus on caring for our aging population. First, it’s the right thing to do. Second, the utilization of care and medical costs in the older population with more complex and chronic medical conditions are tremendous. For example, the budget for Medicare jumped $300 billion between 2007 and 2017. In fact, Medicare costs are the 2nd largest federal expenditure, next to social security. Third, these costs are continuing to rise. It’s predicted that per capita Medicare expenditures will rise at least 4.6% annually for the next decade. At present there are over 60 million people enrolled in Medicare with an esti...