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22 | I NSIGH T • A u g u s t 2 0 17 w w w . i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m FACE T I M E Employers are asking employees to contribute more. The real issue, though, is how do you make health care more affordable? One way would be for providers to be held more accountable for the total cost of care and the quality they provide. there have been a lot of benefits from the ACA and a lot of people don't want to see the baby thrown out with the bathwater. But there are some parts of it that have not worked as designed, so a reasonable approach would be to keep the good stuff, identify what needs to be improved and make adjustments. From a edaCare perspective, we are focused on getting better at the fundamentals. How do we improve safety and quality and patient access while reducing the hassle of health care, control the cost and create a joyful environment for all our employees and physicians? In health care what's happened is a lot of people who were healthy did not sign up for health insurance on the exchanges, so what that has meant is insurance companies have been losing money. A solution would be to find a way to have all the healthy people part of a risk pool, because that's what insurance is. But people have this resistance to the idea of saying that people have to have health insurance. Somehow, for some people, that's un-American. I don't understand that. Maybe somebody can explain that to me someday. Employers are asking employees to contribute more. e real issue, though, is how do you make health care more affordable? One way would be for providers to be held more accountable for the total cost of care and the quality they provide. Many insurers have not been interested in transferring that responsibility to health care providers. But this is my teaser now: edaCare will have an announcement in the next month of something that we believe will put us in the position to do a much better job at aligning those incentives and helping us focus on keeping people healthy. We have been working on this for the past two years. It would be a relationship with a nonprofit insurance company, an existing organization that is not in this area yet. It has basically the same mission as us: to improve the health of the communities we serve. Today, when we do great work to keep people healthy and reduce costs, the beneficiary of that is the large insurance companies. We don't get paid extra, we get paid less, because people don't need as much health care. I think we're going to have a mechanism that we can do the right thing and get rewarded for it. What we are going to announce will put us in a position to actually deliver on that. It gives me a great deal of hope. So stay tuned! $46.8M The amount of new salaries placed in the State of Wisconsin over and above our national reach since 2002. 920.996.9700 • ergsearch.com C E L E B R AT I N G 1 5 Y E A R S $4.5M The value of services we've donated to community nonprofits in support of new leadership over the past 15 years. 97% The retention rate of all candidates within their first two years of placement since our inception.