Our Healthcare System is on the Critical List

The Biggest Issues Facing Healthcare Today - Healthcare Business Today

Since 2001, Gallup has been polling patients regarding their views on the quality of the US healthcare system. The findings of the most recent poll, released in December 2024, suggest that the system is in need of serious attention. Only 44 percent of those polled rated the US healthcare quality as “excellent” or “good,” marking ... Read more The post The Biggest Issues Facing Healthcare Today appeared first on Healthcare Business Today.

Our Healthcare System is on the Critical List

Anyone who has been to a hospital emergency room lately has seen firsthand the health care crisis that we are facing in this country. ERs routinely are filled beyond capacity, with patients lying on their hospital beds in corridors while they wait for a room to open up — sometimes for days. And during the respiratory illness season, when seniors and young children flood the ERs, our overcrowded hospitals resemble something out of a developing co…