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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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Premium: $30,803
On the other hand, if we assume increases revert to the average of the last ten years—an average annual increase of about 8.7% and a very plausible scenario—premiums in 2019 will average a whopping $30,803, a very scary number.
Here’s a less-than-bold prognostication: it can’t get that high, just can’t. The cost of health care is not well known to individuals because of our payment system, but $30,803 is a lot of health care. We’ll have far surpassed some sort of Laffer Curve optimum of individuals’ willingness to actually be insured.
It’s fun (not really, but it is optimism) to think of drop-dead points in the future where things just can’t go on any longer than they have. An average premium of $30,803 in 2019 is one of them. Hopefully we hit a wall much sooner…or do something proactive.
