Tyson: California is the best example of the ACA working effectively
Bernard J. Tyson · a16z Podcast | The Infrastructure of Total Health · Jan 2, 2019 · at 19:12
Bernard J. Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, discusses how state-level regulatory guardrails created successful market competition under the Affordable Care Act.
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“The best example of it working fairly well is in California, where we compete on price, we compete on service, we compete on quality.”
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“We believe strongly that within the next five to 10 years there's a certain percentage of our admissions into the hospital we're going to be doing in the homes.”
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“If you look at the distribution of the healthcare dollars in the industry, Number one, the vast majority of the dollars are spent in a couple of areas. It's spent on chronic care, and it's spent on the last 30 to 45 days of a person's life.”
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“Well, if you come into the Kaiser Permanente system, you will see that, ah, commercial days are something like a 150 per thousand, and Medicare is now down to 700.”
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“So we did not do very well As a country in the rollout of the ACA but we're going to have a bigger challenge eventually when we take on the rollout of revised Medicare program.”
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“One of the biggest lessons that I've learned in being a participant in the whole structure of the Affordable Care Act, the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, is a partisan passed bill for a major change in this country is not a good thing.”