The Full Life Association is also meeting with businesses about how to lower health care costs for their employees. Industry fears losing productivity as the nation’s Baby Boomers retire and will try to keep employees on the payroll longer with flexible schedules and other incentives, including health insurance.
“The fact of the matter is if nothing changes, our health system is going to come tumbling down,” Zollo says. “It’s in dire shape now. But it’s going to come tumbling down. It will not be able to handle the wave of demand that comes as a result of people being basically inactive for 20-30 years.”
Zollo says health care companies won't survive without changes either.
“Health care companies have to help people find a different way,” Zollo says. “They’re not going to be able to survive the cost onslaught this situation is creating.”
(Published Spring 2008)
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