Insurance Coverage Alone Won't Make Us Healthy

WBUR
May 12, 2010

National reform is an important step toward insuring our health and safety, but we have not yet stopped the flooding. Health care costs are rising because the system is flawed. Once again, Massachusetts is leading the nation by pursuing payment reform. We can look forward to a time when health care providers are paid for the quality of their work and the satisfaction of their patients, and not the sheer volume of their output...

We need all hands on deck. The New England Healthcare Institute recently sponsored a forum on Employee Health Promotion to bring key Massachusetts stakeholders together to speed the adoption of the best health and wellness practices. It was clear that programs at large companies alone, no matter how innovative, will not be enough. We need health and wellness programs that reach contract workers and small businesses, too.

Link to Full Article: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/guest-contributors/2010/05/insurance-coverage-…