U.S. Health Care in the Year 2015

Author:

Jordan Battani, Walt Zywiak

The U.S. health care industry is at a crossroads in 2009, and the next five years promise to be a time of upheaval and transformation as the entire industry redefines itself to deliver health care that is safe, effective, and high quality to enough people at a sustainable cost. The magnitude of these changes will affect every sector of the U.S. health care economy and providers, hospitals, and payer organizations that anticipate, prepare for, and embrace these changes are the ones that will survive and succeed.

In this paper we examine the changes underway in U.S. health care, and make some predictions about what will happen with health care cost inflation, coverage, capacity constraints, changing expectations, and health information technology by the year 2015. Recognizing that these changes will affect stakeholders in profoundly different ways, we discuss the implications for purchasers, consumers, providers, and payers, and provide strategic and tactical guidance for organizations to navigate successfully through the industry transformation.

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