title: What is the Future of Healthcare in the United States?
abstract: Reports of rising costs, aging populations, budget cuts, and physician burnout can be distressing for medical professionals. Politicians tout polarizing viewpoints about how to address healthcare inequalities and improve outcomes. Litigation and insurance companies seem to have an increasing-and for some-unwelcome presence in patient care. However, it is also exciting that our society today so highly values healthcare that it is a topic of heated debate. When many news outlets focus on trivial pop culture news, it is refreshing that our peers and politicians spend their time seeking to improve a system that so deeply affects our lives. It is comforting to know that issues of life and death-as well as quality of life-are not lost. There is passion in the discussion of the future of healthcare and for that, we can be grateful.
authors.affiliation: LSUHSC-New Orleans, LA.
authors.forename: Margaret Coleman
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Maxi
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D014481:United States