The Huge, Neglected Opportunity For Proactive Medicine

In this Forbes post by Neil Versel, David Nash of the Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson School of Population Health offers a great, pithy summary of ObamaCare’s strategy to reform U.S. healthcare: “No outcome, no income.” He's talking about reforming the incentives for healthcare providers by paying them to produce results (health outcomes) rather than to churn out procedures, as has often been the case up to now.

Another simple but profound principle deserves equal attention: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound [maybe a ton] of cure.” Or, as an old oil filter commercial put it, “Pay me now or pay me later.”