our own system

Hi there, I'm Drew Weilage and I'm working to make healthcare better for patients.

This is a blog with links to healthcare goings on, trends, and uncategorized interestingness as well as attempts to filter my own healthcare thinking through essay.

I am greatly aware of my idealistic, naive even, views on a number of topics. But frankly, I think healthcare is in dire need of more of the "what's possible/what could be" type of thinking. I'm greatly protective of my unabashed idealism but always open to reason and discourse about any of it.

This is round two of my blogging life, the first being archived here.

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Sustainable Life Media: Whole Foods Market is moving into the preventative health care market, testing membership-only “Wellness Clubs” in five US markets over the next three months. … Members will pay a one-time fee of $199 and monthly dues of $45. In exchange they can attend classes on nutrition, health and cooking, and receive 10% discounts on 1,000 healthy food items in the store. If the test period is successful, Whole Foods says it will expand the program to 10 more markets in 2012 before going national in 2013. (The company has 310 stores nationwide.) I have this suspicion that healthcare delivery organizations are going to look at this five years from now and wonder how they got beat on “wellness.” The reason will be one that this economic spate has made popular: out-innovated by those willing to think differently. A wellness focus makes little economic sense at this moment. But it will. It will.

Sustainable Life Media:

Whole Foods Market is moving into the preventative health care market, testing membership-only “Wellness Clubs” in five US markets over the next three months.

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Members will pay a one-time fee of $199 and monthly dues of $45. In exchange they can attend classes on nutrition, health and cooking, and receive 10% discounts on 1,000 healthy food items in the store.

If the test period is successful, Whole Foods says it will expand the program to 10 more markets in 2012 before going national in 2013. (The company has 310 stores nationwide.)

I have this suspicion that healthcare delivery organizations are going to look at this five years from now and wonder how they got beat on “wellness.” The reason will be one that this economic spate has made popular: out-innovated by those willing to think differently. A wellness focus makes little economic sense at this moment. But it will. It will.

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