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Thank you for visiting our website and we hope that you find the information and commentary here useful as you engage with the healthcare industry in whatever capacity. During the past three years since we launched healthcarebigideas.com, the healthcare industry has experienced more disruption and chaos than in the previous four decades. At Healthcare Big Ideas, we are here to empower you to understand the chaos and how it affects daily life.

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The High Costs Of COVID-19: Does The Right To Healthcare Also Come With Responsibility?

September 15, 2021 by Amy Bednarz in Affordability, Quality, Healthcare

A Harvard study estimated the total financial losses due to the pandemic at $16 trillion[1]. Health losses made up over half of the total including $4.375 trillion from premature death; $2.572 trillion from long term health impairment; and $1.581 trillion from mental health impairment.

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May 08, 2020 by Amy Bednarz in Access, Quality, Affordability, Effectiveness

I have spent the past four decades as a healthcare executive and consultant – the last 20 of those years working with academic medical centers. It made it especially difficult to watch over the past three months as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the U.S. healthcare provider community.