Harvard Busines School Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

[avaistheone1]

Three Harvard Business School faculty members, all experts in the health care field provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems.

Best line: "Americans must take greater responsibility for maintaining their health. In the future they will have a health score, much like their credit score, that is based on well-established metrics that will motivate them to improve their health & will also have to assume greater financial responsibility for cost of their care, abandoning the myth that "health care is free." This will be accomplished through incentives for those who maintain their health, enabling them to pay less, while people who cost the system more will pay a larger proportion of their expenses."

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7039.html



Not feeling too comfortable about the fairness of assigning health scores to people to determine how much they will pay the health insurance industry.

[rocktivity]

1. Wouldn't a more appropriate venue for this discussion

be Harvard's LAW or MEDICAL schools?


rocktivity

[asjr]

2. Most definitely!

[kenny blankenship]

3. Crack That Whip!

All you Freeloaders, Sickos, Fatties and plain ol' Working Slobs just got put on notice by Harvard Business. You are not producing enough profits for us! We will strip you to the bone. We, the global rentier class, are going to juice you for profits, right down to the molecular level. Even the most useless of "useless eaters" will be turned to good account.

[leftyohiolib]

4. i tend to agree. if you decide that bunji jumping is your life's calling then your insurance

should be higher. if youre obese cause you havent seen a french fry you couldnt resist then yup. i'd draw the line at medical issues. this i think will become trend with much of everything. health, driving habits etc . i think progressive is already starting this with their snapshot discount

[Snotcicles]

5. And now that the FDA has finally approved a new diet drug BELVIQ. Helping overweight people

lose weight will surely be a giant step forward.

[Bake]

6. They can stick their "metrics" where the sun don't shine.

Bake

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. I wouldn't blow this off.

The primary goal of the for profit Health Insurance industry isn't health care, it is turning a profit for their shareholders. By law.

If this is where the future MBAs see the industry going, best to pay attention to it.

We can wax poetic about laws and morals and ethics all day long - but it will be the business side of the business that charts their future loophole exploitations; the legal department is just there to make sure that the square peg fits into the new round hole.