Small Businesses and the Future of U.S. Healthcare in 2015
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What might the future of U.S. healthcare look like from the perspective of small businesses five or 10 years from now? That was the guiding question of a GBN project with the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE), an organization with 17,000 members in Northeast Ohio. The goal of the project was to envision potential paths for the U.S. healthcare system in order to encourage and inspire new thinking, better strategies, and more effective advocacy.
This project drew on the combined expertise of healthcare practitioners, industry observers, small business owners, and other stakeholders from around the country. The scenarios outlined in the final report envision four different “worlds” that could exist in 2015 as a result of a variety of forces at work—specifically, the urgency for change that persists among stakeholders of the healthcare system and which institutional or individual players lead reform of the system. While each scenario leads to different outcomes for the system overall, there are a number of broad conclusions for both the greater marketplace and small business’s role in the future.
This project drew on the combined expertise of healthcare practitioners, industry observers, small business owners, and other stakeholders from around the country. The scenarios outlined in the final report envision four different “worlds” that could exist in 2015 as a result of a variety of forces at work—specifically, the urgency for change that persists among stakeholders of the healthcare system and which institutional or individual players lead reform of the system. While each scenario leads to different outcomes for the system overall, there are a number of broad conclusions for both the greater marketplace and small business’s role in the future.
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