"Is our healthcare system really in crisis?"
Thats a question Hank McKinnell, Chairman & CEO, PFIZER Inc., one of the world's most influential corporate leaders, encounters every day.
McKinnell agrees that there is a crisis, he doesn't think the problem is with "healthcare"......rather, he asserts the crisis is in "sick-care."
Healthcare systems around the world.
McKinnell argues, are focused on sickness and its management, rather than health.
As a result, dialogue about how to sustain health now takes a back seat to arguments about cost....containing it, avoiding it, or shifting it to someone else.
A near-universal belief that healthcare is becoming unaffordable, fragmented, and impersonal.
"Focusing only on the cost of care is looking at the healthcare problem though the wrong end of the telescope," says McKinnell, the chairman and CEO of Pfizer.
"The real focus shoud be on the horrific cost of disease."
In America, the "sick-care" system delivers the world's most sophisticated procedures, while skimping on vaccines, hapering the fight against AIDS, and intruding into one of life's most personal relationships.....doctor and patient.
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