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NEW BOOK BY MCKESSON CORPORATION CEO SAYS
TRANSFORMATION LIES AHEAD FOR THE US HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Americans currently spend $2 trillion a year on health care, nearly 15.3% of GDP, and the total is projected to reach $4 trillion by 2016. That's more per capita than any other nation in the world, and yet it doesn't seem to be enough. 46 million Americans do not have health insurance at all, and many of the rest of us struggle with high premiums and a sense of inadequate coverage that forces us to choose between the best care versus "covered care." Meanwhile, more and more employers are dropping health plans every year, the large corporate health insurance providers are showing signs of financial trouble, and Medicare is projected to go bankrupt by 2017.
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MCKESSON CEO FOCUSES ON BONDS
By Julie Schmit, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — John Hammergren, as CEO of one of the USA's largest companies, is far from his small-town Minnesota upbringing. But one insight that propelled his career came years ago from a man there who sold medical supplies out of the trunk of his car.
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HEALTH STATISTICS
A lot has changed since family physicians made house calls and pharmacies were family-owned businesses with soda fountains, here are the facts that Americans are now facing:

Health care already eats up 15.3 percent of our GDP at $2.2 trillion a year and that number is projected to reach $4 trillion by 2016.

140 million ineligible prescriptions are written every year.

There are 1.5 trillion claims each year and a full 30 percent of those claims have errors while 15 percent get lost.
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THE LEADERSHIP ANSWER- WHAT SHOULD GOVERNMENT DO?
In SKIN THE GAME, author and CEO John Hammergren identified what our country needs to do to bring our system in the right direction, but he also shares the following five points to show the specific tasks that the government must own in order for us to be successful.
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QUESTIONS FOR JOHN HAMMERGREN
Why has US health care been so slow to take a consumer-focused approach? How do we empower consumers in a "JD Power-like experience", as you call it?

What do you mean by "market—based US health care"? You seem convinced the US can succeed using business solutions to cure health care's woes.

"What's an electronic medical visit and why is that valuable to patients and doctors? Why do insurers like it?"
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