Post Modern Healthcare’s Leadership Symposium: From Frustrations with Adult Health to Childhood Solutions
During the main panel discussion at highly influential Modern Healthcare magazine’s Leadership Symposium recently, prominent industry CEOs shared their frustrations on the need for change in health care but the lack of progress. Of all the comments made in a poll of attendees, Modern Healthcare highlighted one by Erin Hammond, a senior value-based programs professional at Humana [ emphasis added by me]: “Medicare Advantage and Medicare should start for high-risk communities the first day of preschool . That way the government and healthcare orgs have an entire lifetime to shape healthy habits that will impact the high cost of the elderly population. Between that and a sugar tax and increasing the quality of food we make available to our population...we would not only see the quality and healthy days of our citizens enhance as they get older, but much lower medical costs .” Even if you don’t believe in a single cradle-to-grave health plan for all or taxes on unhealthy ingredie