Healthcare

I’m not a part of the Baylor MBA in healthcare program. Frankly, I’m not particularly interested in the healthcare space and I most certainly don’t want to show up to work at a hospital everyday. However, I’ve shared several classes with many of these students. I’m constantly impressed by their desire to work hard and learn the concepts needed to revolutionize the way hospitals are operated, insuring they are profitable.

With the ACA most have become aware of the outrageous cost of healthcare in the United States relatives to other countries. Not only that, the drug and insurance industries have become bloated and overly large on top of that. With this reality in mind I began to think about what the real solution might be. Is it really that the government should make insurance available to everyone by law? Does government intervention at this magnitude have a track record of success?

I would argue the answer to both of those questions is a resounding no.

The broken healthcare system can be fixed by ethically minded, innovative thinkers coming out of places like the Baylor MBA in healthcare program. The program trains students to think through these problems and systems analytically with a keen eye to make incremental improvements. The ultimate goal of these improvements is to make hospitals more efficient and therefore reduce the cost passed on the customer/patient.

No, I’m not part of the program nor do I want to work in healthcare. I’m still smart enough to see a good thing and the real answer to the question when I see it.