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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP279: COVID-19—How Did Health Systems Get Addicted to the Inflated Prices They Charge Employers and Some Patients? With Peter Hayes, President and CEO of the Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine
Description: Let me explicitly state an implicit theme that's been running through a bunch of the latest Relentless Health Value podcasts talking about if and how the COVID-19 pandemic could possibly serve as a flash point in the health care industry—a flash point where egregious and self-interested financial pursuits take such a toll that politicians notice. Why do these legislators notice? Because the patients (also known as voters), the ones that we all serve, begin to break under the weight of a system that inappropriately enriches some of its purveyors. In this health care podcast, I...