American healthcare spending accounts for $3.8 trillion or nearly 18% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The scale of that spending has implications for our wallets—averaging more than $11,000 per person per year—and, more importantly for our well-being. With so much at stake, questions arise about how healthcare is delivered? How to pay for healthcare? And how to manage its rising costs? In the COVID era, these questions have intensified and sparked different views about safeguarding public health and economic health.
On March 4, 2021, the Conviction and Conversation Series gathered together Treasure Valley health leaders to discuss these and other issues facing healthcare locally and nationally. The contributors brought vast experience in public health, health insurance, hospital administration, and the practice of medicine.
Featured panelists included:
