Ten Ideas to Propel Us Towards an Envisioned Future

1. Acute Care: Self Service Telemedicine Bays as a Viable Solution to Access and Cost
2. Hospitalization: Conversion and Outsourcing Select Inpatient Care to Hotel Operators
3. Prescription Drugs: Free Market Fairness to Balance the Capital Investment Rationale
4. The Uninsured: Establishing a National Stop Loss as an American Model Alternative
5. Consumerism: Health Consumer Certification -Patient Savvy to Wring out the Waste
6. Addiction: Neural Day Spas as Ubiquitous Catalysts in Improved Behavioral Health
7. Long Term Care: Habitat Incentives to Extend Home Living of an Aging Population
8. Clinician Shortages: Talent Underwriting and Lay Caregivers to Fill the Clinical Gap
9. A Life Based System: An Integral Health Systems Approach to the Provision of Care
10. A Vision for Human Potential: Funding an Endowment from a Belief in Possibilities

NOTE

It is with regret that I submit this as an unfinished entry into this compctition. I was moved by Kathleen's challenge to put my ideas to paper in my spare time, but that time ran out. Nevertheless, elaboration on six of the ten topics that are works in progress is provided. Complete reference and statistical sources which include Kathleen 07Connor's The Buck Stops Nowhere, Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac and numerous articles and studies have not been provided, but would be referenced if judges decided to move this submission forward.

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