So why do people want to focus on things like lowering central line infections by using the surgery checklist and Safeway model? I think it’s because the real drivers of health care costs are legacy stakeholders, like hospitals, insurance companies, or drug companies, or all the middlemen I’m exposing in this book. There are so many hands taking money out of the system that there’s no silver bullet solution to save money. To lower costs, we must take on the powerful stakeholders. It’s easy to blame bacteria for our health care woes, but infections are not the reason your premiums went up 15%
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