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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHealthcare Is Killing Us
High healthcare costs are dooming job creation, badly needed hope, and employee engagement, says Gallup's chairmanAmericans have been concerned about the rising cost of healthcare for some time, but the situation may be even more dangerous than we think. As Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton writes in The Coming Jobs War: "It is impossible for the U.S. to win the race for new good jobs while the country continues its failed strategies for healthcare. Astronomical healthcare costs end America's race to re-win the future. The United States has to fix this or it shuts off the energy switch to entrepreneurship and innovation. If this happens, everything else ceases to matter."
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost the U.S. about $200 billion a year. That's tiny compared to healthcare costs.
Part of the problem is that money spent on healthcare drains businesses of badly needed capital. But another part is that a sickly population is a sluggish population -- too sluggish to be engaged, customer-creating employees or to have hope.
In the following conversation, Clifton discusses why healthcare is costing us more than we think -- and why hope and engagement are more helpful than we know.
Q & A at: http://gmj.gallup.com/content/151862/Healthcare-Killing.aspx
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Healthcare Is Killing Us (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Apr 2012
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)1. Gee ,I wonder where we could get some $$$$$
Fu-k you Sen. Pryor D-AZ .
RC
(25,592 posts)2. Health care costs? Or the For-Profit Health Insurance companies that are rubbing us blind.
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)3. It's not healthcare ...
it's GREED.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)4. I totally believe this. nt