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Chapter 2
Overview of the Future
Introduction
In the first chapter, we learned that the various components of healthcare evolved
in very different ways, leading to dramatic disparity in financing mechanisms.
Sustained financing of healthcare delivery in the future will demand a strong align-
ment between the parties providing healthcare and the payers financing it. ese
alignments (aligned incentives) must be cemented together to allow healthcare to
become more efficient with better outcomes. e current financing system is broken,
and the only way to get to a sustainable future is by removing waste and inefficien-
cies. We must take advantage of technol ...