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America’s healthcare costs are in deep crisis

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SUMMARY: The media loves to blame pharma companies for high healthcare costs, but unless we start to invest in healthy lifestyles, we’re headed for a healthcare crisis the likes of which we have never experienced. This means higher healthcare costs. Forget the fact that prescription drugs only account for $.10

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The future of healthcare?

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SUMMARY: One definitive trend to emerge from the pandemic is that more people are becoming healthcare consumers. They want healthcare to be easier to access and don’t want to wait for necessary medical tests. One urgent care center in Tampa even has its online healthcare records site. Where does pharma fit in?

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Corporations: “get healthcare costs under control”

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SUMMARY: A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Purchaser Business Group on Health shows signs that corporate executives might be warming to the idea of government getting more involved to rein in the excesses of the healthcare system. How does pharma respond? Big changes are coming. It’s long overdue.

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Is pharma hiring the right people?

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The culture within pharma is driving people away, including new hires. In my 20 years within the healthcare industry, I’ve worked with some really talented people at learned from them. Age discrimination within pharma is real. With the loss of more experienced people, the pharma industry is losing talent and gaining what?

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A realistic view of healthcare in 2022

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Yes, there will be changes in healthcare in the coming years but put away the thoughts that telehealth and wearable devices will revolutionize healthcare. 3hree: Pharma will increase its spending in digital, but a lot of the money will be wasted. Digital, within healthcare, is used differently by online health seekers.

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

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America’s profit-riddled healthcare-industrial complex consumes 17% of GDP, equivalent to $3.6trn a year. However, changes are slowly being implemented that could lower healthcare costs. Healthcare is ripe for disruption, but any attempt to disrupt our state of healthcare has been met with pushback and challenges.

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Our healthcare has failed us

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IN SUMMARY: American healthcare is failing. While there are lots of reasons for this the silence of healthcare providers is a huge reason. Pharma should include warnings about obesity on every drug product page that could be caused by obesity. The post Our healthcare has failed us appeared first on World of DTC Marketing.com.