The Chrysler experience, and forecasts.
Using his experience with Chrysler Motors as an example, the author tells how waste, inefficiency, and greed shaped a corporate health care system that, if it continued, could have blocked the corporation's recovery. An intense investigation of the use and abuse of this plan resulted in savings of about $100 million over an initial two-year period, with an additional $250 million savings projected over the following five years. In considering future changes in the country's health care system, he comments on the need for hospital cutbacks; reduction in unwarranted variations in medical practice; dissemination of necessary information to both individual and corporate purchasers of health care; increasing utilization of nurses in the medical arts; changes in the medical malpractice system; an increase in corporation case management systems; and competition among providers, which, by reducing costs, will most likely result in an efficient health care system for all people.
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